Percutaneous transesophageal gastrotubing: alternative tube nutrition for a patient with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 278-279

  Yamamoto, Tetsuya ^a,b   Enomoto, Takao ^b   Matsumura, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Tsukuba Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nutrition; Percutaneous transesophageal gastrotubing; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGOSTOMY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSESOPHAGEAL GASTROTUBING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUBE; TUBE FEEDING;

ADULT; DEGLUTITION; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ESOPHAGOSTOMY; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 67749144172     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.04.029     Document Type: Article

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