Clinical Review
Splenic Rupture During Routine Colonoscopy
Case in Point
Fed Pract. 2008 February;25(2):30
Author(s):
Reyes CV
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Cesar V. Reyes, MD
Dr. Reyes is an attending pathologist at Morris Hospital, Morris, IL and a volunteer consultant in pathology in the pathology and laboratory medicine service of the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL.
For this patient, an injury that occurred during colonoscopy revealed sarcoidosis that was isolated to the spleen—an extremely rare circumstance of the condition.