Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy Feeding Tube "Knot" Working: A Rare Complication

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Hilal, Raouf E ^a   Hilal, Talal ^a   Mushawahar, Andria ^a  

^a FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUODENUM MOTILITY; FEEDING APPARATUS; GASTRIC DYSMOTILITY; HUMAN; JEJUNOSTOMY TUBE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH PARESIS;

AGED; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GASTROPARESIS; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; JEJUNOSTOMY; MALE;

EID: 34247483978     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

References (2)

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