Effect of gastropexy on early complications of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and procedure of the low cost gastropecy named 'Hokushin Method'

Gastroenterological Endoscopy

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2146-2152

  Shibata, Sanae ^c   Yamamoto, Chikara ^c   Yoshioka, Atsushi ^c   Fujii, Toshimitsu ^c   Horiuchi, Takao ^c   Tajiri, Kazuo ^a   Watanabe, Mamoru ^b  

^a Hokushin General Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH WALL;

EID: 26644437197     PISSN: 03871207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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