Mediastinitis complicating a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Since its introduction in the early 1980s, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy has become the most popular method for performing a gastrostomy for long-term enteral feeding. It has been associated, however, with a lot of minor and major complications. CASE PRESENTATION: A case of mediast...

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Autores principales: Papakonstantinou, Kalliopi, Karagiannis, Athanasios, Tsirantonaki, Maria, Konstantinidis, Anastasios, Spirou, Spiros, Skottis, Ion, Karabinis, Andreas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC165419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12791167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-3-11

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