Lesson of the week. Deaths after delayed recognition of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube migration

British Medical Journal

Volumn 317, Issue 7157, 1998, Pages 524-525

  Botterill, Ian ^a   Miller, Glenn ^a   Dexter, Simon ^a   Martin, Iain ^a  

^a Centre for Digestive Diseases   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

EID: 0032558313     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.317.7157.524     Document Type: Article

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