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Fatal complications related to diagnostic barium enema
S Rimarenko1, L Finkel, M L Taff
1Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans Popper Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
Thousands of barium enemas are performed in the United States each year without incident. Occasionally complications arise, only a few of which are fatal. Perforation is the most frequent serious complication of this procedure. Two instances of fatal perforation, one colonic and the other vaginal, are described, and the relevant literature is reviewed.