Comminuted nasogastric tube fracture: a rare complication

A nasogastric tube is commonly used as a method of enteral feeding or gastric decompression in clinical practice and its insertion is occasionally associated with local complications. In this case report, we present an extremely rare complication of a comminuted nasogastric tube fracture in a 54-yea...

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Autores principales: Eldigair, Hiba, Khurram, Ruhaid, Bennell, Jose, Mir, Naheed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8803236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35136626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20210049
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author Eldigair, Hiba
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description A nasogastric tube is commonly used as a method of enteral feeding or gastric decompression in clinical practice and its insertion is occasionally associated with local complications. In this case report, we present an extremely rare complication of a comminuted nasogastric tube fracture in a 54-year-old male patient receiving enteral feeding in hospital secondary to a diagnosis of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.
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spelling pubmed-88032362022-02-07 Comminuted nasogastric tube fracture: a rare complication Eldigair, Hiba Khurram, Ruhaid Bennell, Jose Mir, Naheed BJR Case Rep Case Report A nasogastric tube is commonly used as a method of enteral feeding or gastric decompression in clinical practice and its insertion is occasionally associated with local complications. In this case report, we present an extremely rare complication of a comminuted nasogastric tube fracture in a 54-year-old male patient receiving enteral feeding in hospital secondary to a diagnosis of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. The British Institute of Radiology. 2021-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8803236/ /pubmed/35136626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20210049 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Comminuted nasogastric tube fracture: a rare complication
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title_full Comminuted nasogastric tube fracture: a rare complication
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title_full_unstemmed Comminuted nasogastric tube fracture: a rare complication
title_short Comminuted nasogastric tube fracture: a rare complication
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8803236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35136626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20210049
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