perforation

The major potential harm of a colonoscopy is a bowel perforation.

For me the worst part is the risk of perforation: it's rare but adds risk to the procedure.

You have to weigh the risk of complications from the colonoscopy (primarily bowel perforation) with the improved outcomes.

And second, while a perforation can be serious, even if not caught it should just heal on its own.

This often involves animal models initially, eg inducing duodenal perforation in pigs and trying the surgery there.

Twenty-six children had bowel perforation; three needed major surgery to remove a section of damaged intestine.

Colonoscopies are no big deal from my perspective, but they do have some risk; bowel perforation being the primary one.

You seem primarily concerned not with PID, but the risk of perforation during insertion in roughly 1 in every 2,000 women.

Too much acid reflux can result in lining deterioration, perforation or even cancer in esophagus.

The most common occurrence of perforation is during insertion, and even then perforations during insertion happen in less than 0.001% of cases.

You tear it out at a perforation, leaving part of the DVD cover inside.

He invented a new operation: a laparoscopic repair of the ulcerous perforation, using quarter-inch incisions and taking an average of forty-five minutes.

I think you did mean "a bowel perforation dumps", when you said "it dumps", but it felt a little vague to me.

After all, nowhere in this article do the words "surgery" or "intestinal perforation" occur.

Not to mention the danger of the probe breaking through the intestinal walls; per Wikipedia: " The most serious complication generally is the gastrointestinal perforation, which is life-threatening and requires immediate major surgery for repair.

The printers either kept track of the number of lines printed "so far", or, in the case of a chain printer, there was a literal chain (similar to an engine timing belt) that had a particular location that was supposed to be aligned with the paper perforation.

Perforation would most likely increase the chance of tearing very significantly.