Liver injury during PEG tube placement: Report of two cases

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 346-348

  Gubler, Christoph ^a   Wildi, Stephan M ^a   Bauerfeind, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LIVER INJURY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 13844313382     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(04)02584-2     Document Type: Article

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