Malposition of percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy: Guideline and management

Percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy (PEG) is done routinely on patients who suffer from inability to feed by mouth. PEG is generally considered a safe procedure with a low complication rate. A commonly underreported complication of PEG is malposition. This manuscript is a guideline to diagnos...

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Autores principales: Milanchi, Siamak, Wilson, Matthew T
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2699054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19547728
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.40989
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description Percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy (PEG) is done routinely on patients who suffer from inability to feed by mouth. PEG is generally considered a safe procedure with a low complication rate. A commonly underreported complication of PEG is malposition. This manuscript is a guideline to diagnosis and management of PEG malposition. We describe the different types of malposition, their diagnosis and management.
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spelling pubmed-26990542009-06-22 Malposition of percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy: Guideline and management Milanchi, Siamak Wilson, Matthew T J Minim Access Surg Review Article Percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy (PEG) is done routinely on patients who suffer from inability to feed by mouth. PEG is generally considered a safe procedure with a low complication rate. A commonly underreported complication of PEG is malposition. This manuscript is a guideline to diagnosis and management of PEG malposition. We describe the different types of malposition, their diagnosis and management. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2699054/ /pubmed/19547728 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.40989 Text en © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Malposition of percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy: Guideline and management
title Malposition of percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy: Guideline and management
title_full Malposition of percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy: Guideline and management
title_fullStr Malposition of percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy: Guideline and management
title_full_unstemmed Malposition of percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy: Guideline and management
title_short Malposition of percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy: Guideline and management
title_sort malposition of percutaneous endoscopic-guided gastrostomy: guideline and management
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2699054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19547728
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.40989
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