Unplanned hospitalizations in patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer treated with (chemo)radiotherapy with and without prophylactic percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

BACKGROUND: Current studies about percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement report equivalent patient outcomes with prophylactic PEG tubes (pPEGs) versus common nutritional support. Unreported was if omitting a pPEG is associated with an increased risk of complications leading to a tr...

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Autores principales: Bojaxhiu, Beat, Shrestha, Binaya K., Luterbacher, Pascal, Elicin, Olgun, Shelan, Mohamed, Macpherson, Andrew J. S., Heimgartner, Benjamin, Giger, Roland, Aebersold, Daniel M., Zaugg, Kathrin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7737384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33317602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-020-01727-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7737384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33317602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-020-01727-9

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