Technical modifications for improving the success rate of PEG tube placement in patients with head and neck cancer

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 633-636

  Taller, András ^a,b   Horvath, Emília ^a   Iliás, Lajos ^a   Kótai, Zsuzsa ^a   Simig, Mária ^a   Élö, János ^a   Harsányi, László ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UZSOKI HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE CAVITY;

ADULT; AGED; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY;

EID: 0035515430     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2001.119221     Document Type: Article

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