Endoscopic approaches to enteral nutritional support

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 605-630

  DiSario, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

endoscopic; enteral; gastrostomy; jejunostomy; naso enteric; nutrition; percutaneous; tube

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FOOD REGURGITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; JEJUNOSTOMY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NOSE FEEDING; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBE FEEDING;

ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; JEJUNOSTOMY;

EID: 33745122519     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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