Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: Nine years experience in a tertiary care centre in Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 108-110

  Khokhar, Nasir ^a   Gill, Muzaffar Lateef ^a  

^a SHIFA INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAKISTAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; REVIEW; STOMACH TUBE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 17644397905     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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