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Metastatic esophageal cancer leading to gastric perforation after repeat PEG placement
1University of California at Davis Medical Center, Sacramento 95817, USA.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|September 14, 1999
Abstract:
Various complications from percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy have been reported. We describe a case of pneumoperitoneum after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy placement because of gastric wall weakening from malignant stomal seeding and, possibly, from chemoradiation.