SMALL-BOWEL FISTULA - A COMPLICATION OF PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY INSERTION

Authors
EVANS PM SERPELL JW
Citation
Pm. Evans et Jw. Serpell, SMALL-BOWEL FISTULA - A COMPLICATION OF PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY INSERTION, Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 64(7), 1994, pp. 518-520
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00048682
Volume
64
Issue
7
Year of publication
1994
Pages
518 - 520
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-8682(1994)64:7<518:SF-ACO>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
A 22 year old man who sustained a severe closed head injury after a hi gh speed motor car accident underwent routine placement of percutaneou s endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) for feeding purposes. Nine days after i ts insertion an enterocutaneous fistula was diagnosed around the PEG t ube. A loop of mid-jejunum had been transfixed during die insertion of die PEG.