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  • Title: [Role of colonoscopy in emergency surgery of the colon].
    Author: Balalykin AS, Razzhivina AA.
    Journal: Khirurgiia (Mosk); 1989 Apr; (4):70-4. PubMed ID: 2786975.
    Abstract:
    The article analyses the results of using colonoscopy as a method for emergency identification of the causes of acute colonic obstruction and intestinal hemorrhage. The diagnostic informativeness of emergency colonoscopy was 98.7% in colonic obstruction and 97.2% in intestinal hemorrhage. With the use of the results of emergency endoscopy in the choice of the therapeutic tactic for patients with acute colonic obstruction and intestinal bleeding, the percentage of fatal outcomes in the group of patients who underwent operation reduced significantly: to 18.8% in operations for acute colonic obstruction and to 14.8% in operations for intestinal hemorrhage.
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