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Transgastric Diversion of Transnasal Long Tube Placement Using a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Site in a Patient with Bowel Obstruction and Massive Ascites due to Ovarian Carcinoma

The course of patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma is often complicated by bowel obstruction and/or massive ascites. A transnasal long tube may be placed to relieve bowel obstruction, but produces nasal discomfort and pain. Recently, the effectiveness of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)...

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Autores principales: Horiuchi, Akira, Nakayama, Yoshiko, Tanaka, Naoki
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490864
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000155149