Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy evaluation of device materials: Are we "failsafe"?

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 613-617

  DeLegge, Rebecca L ^a   DeLegge, Mark H ^b  

^a Hammerhead Design and Development   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COPOLYMER; DIMETICONE; LATEX; POLYMER; POLYURETHAN; RUBBER; SILICONE;

BIOFILM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; DEVICE; ENTERIC FEEDING; EVALUATION; HARDNESS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MATERIAL COATING; MICROBIAL ADHESION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POROSITY; REVIEW; STOMACH TUBE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS;

EID: 29044437357     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0115426505020006613     Document Type: Review

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