Should single-stage PEG buttons become the procedure of choice for PEG placement in children?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 320-324

  Evans, Jonathan S ^a   Thorne, Margaret ^a   Taufiq, Salik ^a   George, Donald E ^a  

^a NEMOURS CHILDREN S CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; APNEA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE; ENTERIC FEEDING; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROSTOMY; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX RATIO; STOMACH TUBE; STOMACH VOLVULUS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBE REMOVAL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33747200886     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.04.042     Document Type: Article

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