Gastrostomy tube placement in infants and children: is there a preferred technique?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1147-1152

  Akay, Begum ^a   Capizzani, Tony R ^a   Lee, Alice M ^a   Drongowski, Robert A ^a   Geiger, James D ^a   Hirschl, Ronald B ^a   Mychaliska, George B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Laparoscopic gastrostomy; Pediatric; Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

Indexed keywords

HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUTERIZATION; CHILD; COLON FISTULA; COLON INJURY; COLON PERFORATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EROSION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HEART ARREST; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE INJURY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER INJURY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLORUS STENOSIS; REOPERATION; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; STOMACH FISTULA; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; STOMACH TUBE; ULCER; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEVICES; ENTERIC FEEDING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; GASTROSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; INFANT; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953854873     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2010.02.079     Document Type: Article

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