Table 1.

Summaries of the reports evaluating the conservative management and outcome of colonoscopic perforation.

	Number of perforations	Conservative	Failed conservative	Morbidity conservative	Mortality conservative
Avgerinos et al. [1]	35	12 (34%)	1	0	0
Sagawa et al. [3]	8	4 (50%)	0	0	0
Lüning et al. [4]	35	1 (3%)	1	0	0
Castellví et al. [6]	54	12 (22%)	2	0	0
Iqbal et al. [11]	72	10 (14%)	0	1	1
Tran et al. [12]	21	2 (9.5%)	2	0	0
Korman et al. [13]	37	2 (5.5%)	0	0	0
Cobb et al. [14]	14	3 (21.5%)	2	0	0
Heldwein et al. [15]	26	12 (46.2%)	0	0	0
Tulchinsky et al. [16]	7	1 (14%)	0	0	0
Mai et al. [17]	23	1 (4%)	0	0	0
Coimbra et al. [18]	43	1 (2%)	0	0	0
García Martínez et al. [19]	15	3 (20%)	0	0	0
Tam and Abbas [20]	26	4 (15%)	0	1	0
Anderson et al. [21]	20	1 (5%)	0	0	1
Araghizadeh et al. [22]	31	11 (35)	3	1	1
Christie and Marrazzo [23]	7	5 (71.5%)	0	0	0
Farley et al. [24]	45	3 (6.5%)	0	0	0
Hall et al. [25]	15	1 (6.5)	0	0	0