Six weeks of home enteral nutrition versus standard care after esophagectomy or total gastrectomy for cancer: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Each year approximately 3000 patients in the United Kingdom undergo surgery for esophagogastric cancer. Jejunostomy feeding tubes, placed at the time of surgery for early postoperative nutrition, have been shown to have a positive impact on clinical outcomes in the short term. Whether fe...

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Autores principales: Bowrey, David J, Baker, Melanie, Halliday, Vanessa, Thomas, Anne L, Pulikottil-Jacob, Ruth, Smith, Karen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4039309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24885032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-187

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