Colonic perforations from colonoscopy are rare but typically lead to serious complications, including surgery and prolonged hospital admissions, a new study shows.
The analysis, of more than 263,000 colonoscopies performed over a seven-year period, was conducted within England’s National Health Service Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (NHSBCSP). In all, 147 perforations (0.06%) were identified. For the perforations that had complete data available, almost all resulted in hospital