Small bowel obstruction from a dislodged feeding tube

Age and Ageing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-82

  Kamar, Moshe ^a,b   Bar Dayan, Avner ^a,b   Zmora, Oded ^a,b   Ayalon, Amram ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Enteral feeding; Gastrostomy tube; Nasogastric tube feeding

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE SURGERY; LONG TERM CARE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; VOMITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; JEJUNAL DISEASES;

EID: 1642432924     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afh012     Document Type: Article

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