Test for Left Colon Injury

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Case description

For confirmation of the integrity of the left colon and avoid missing of an iatrogenic injury here, we insert a Foley’s catheter in the rectum “through the anus” and load the rectum using saline colored with methylene blue until the left colon become distended without any detected leakage

tags: colon rectum surgical cases

related terms: colon injury, left colon integrity, colon iatrogenic injury, Foley catheter, saline, colon leakage, clinical cases colorectal surgery, clinical training coloproctology

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