COLOCUTANEOUS FISTULA - A RARE COMPLICATION OF PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY

Citation
E. Scapa et al., COLOCUTANEOUS FISTULA - A RARE COMPLICATION OF PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY, Surgical laparoscopy & endoscopy, 3(5), 1993, pp. 430-432
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
ISSN journal
10517200
Volume
3
Issue
5
Year of publication
1993
Pages
430 - 432
Database
ISI
SICI code
1051-7200(1993)3:5<430:CF-ARC>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Although the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy technique for feeding is a fairly common procedure now, we have not come across a complicat ion such as described below, a probable migration of the tube from the stomach to the colon, without any objective proof for this.