A unique complication of primary tracheoesophageal puncture: Knotting of the nasogastric tube

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 528-529

  Malik, Nadeem W ^a,c   Timon, Conrad I ^a   Russel, John ^b  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b MATER PRIVATE HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NECK DISSECTION; STOMACH INTUBATION; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0032919137     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/hn.1999.v120.a87953     Document Type: Article

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