Malignant seeding of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tract in patient with head and neck cancer

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 336, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 291-292

  Siddiqi, Anwer M ^a   Hamilton, Robert D ^a   Minocha, Anil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OVERTON BROOKS VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer metastasis; Cancer of the PEG stroma; Complications; Head and neck cancer; Percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRATION; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ABDOMINAL WALL; EPIGLOTTIS; FATALITY; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; IATROGENIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ABDOMINAL WALL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EPIGLOTTIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM SEEDING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 55249091830     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31815b60ba     Document Type: Article

References (1)

1. Cappell MS. Risk factors and risk reduction of malignant seeding of the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy track from pharyngoesophageal malignancy: a review of all 44 known reported cases. Am J Gastroenterol 2007;102:1307-11.