External bolster placement after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube insertion: Is looser better?

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-20

  DeLegge, Mark ^a,b   DeLegge, Rebecca ^a   Brady, Courtney ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ENTERIC FEEDING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH TUBE; TENSION; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENTERAL NUTRITION; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 30744458870     PISSN: 01486071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014860710603000116     Document Type: Article

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