Conservative recovery and replacement of a ruptured percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube; a case report

BACKGROUND: Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) feeding tubes are frequently placed in patients to provide enteral nutrition. We report a case of a complete rupture of a PEG tube intra-abdominally with associated peritonitis after more than a month of PEG placement and utilization. To our know...

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Autores principales: Al Halabi, Maan, Wakim, Wakim, Moukaddam, Hicham, Husari, Ahmad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7106845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32228470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-020-01218-x

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