Colonoscopic perforation: Incidence, risk factors, management and outcome

Table 1 Incidence of CP, management and outcomes from recent series with sample size > 30 000 cases

Author	Year	Number of patients	CP rate	Death rate in CP cases	CPT rate in CP cases	Surgical treatment (%)
Araghizadeh et al[14]	2001	34 620	0.090	3.2	NA	74
Gatto et al[9]	2003	74 584	0.145	5.6	NA	NA
Korman et al[17]	2003	116 000	0.032	0.0	NA	95
Cobb et al[16]	2004	43 609	0.032	0.0	21.4	93
Lüning et al[4]	2007	30 366	0.115	8.6	40.0	100
Rabeneck et al[18]	2008	97 091	0.085	NA	NA	NA
Iqbal et al[2]	2008	258 248	0.070	7.0	36.0	92
Teoh et al[3]	2009	37 971	0.113	25.6	48.7	91
Arora et al[15]	2009	277 434	0.082	NA	NA	NA

CP: Colonoscopic perforation; CPT: Complication; NA: Not available.