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DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-40220
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Complication of an Endoscopic Tattoo
P. Del Rio, MD
Institute of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation · University of Parma
Via Gramsci 14 · 43100 Parma · Italy
Fax: +39-0521-992501
Email: paolofelisso@hotmail.com
Publication History
Publication Date:
24 June 2003 (online)
Figure 1 Abdominal pain and fever persisted for 2 months in a 57-year-old woman, following an endoscopic tattooing procedure after polypectomy of a pedunculated polyp. Intra-abdominal and pelvic diffusion of ink could be seen.
Figure 2 Intraoperative view of a reactive lymphadenomegaly in the mesosigmoid. The polyp was an adenocarcinoma with an infiltration of the endoscopic excision line. Colonic resection was performed.
P. Del Rio, MD
Institute of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation · University of Parma
Via Gramsci 14 · 43100 Parma · Italy
Fax: +39-0521-992501
Email: paolofelisso@hotmail.com
P. Del Rio, MD
Institute of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation · University of Parma
Via Gramsci 14 · 43100 Parma · Italy
Fax: +39-0521-992501
Email: paolofelisso@hotmail.com
Figure 1 Abdominal pain and fever persisted for 2 months in a 57-year-old woman, following an endoscopic tattooing procedure after polypectomy of a pedunculated polyp. Intra-abdominal and pelvic diffusion of ink could be seen.
Figure 2 Intraoperative view of a reactive lymphadenomegaly in the mesosigmoid. The polyp was an adenocarcinoma with an infiltration of the endoscopic excision line. Colonic resection was performed.