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Pneumoscrotum following endoscopic sphincterotomy
O E Klimach1, D J Defriend, D N Foster
1Department of Medicine and Surgery, Birch Hill Hospital, Rochdale, UK.
Surgical Endoscopy
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Perforation is an infrequent complication of endoscopic sphincterotomy. We report here a man who developed a pneumoscrotum following a retroperitoneal perforation of the duodenum after endoscopic sphincterotomy. The mechanism of this unusual complication is discussed.