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Peritonitis after gastrostomy tube replacement in the emergency department
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles County+University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles 90033, USA.
The Journal of Emergency Medicine
|January 25, 2000
Abstract:
Peritonitis is a potentially fatal complication of the malpositioning of a gastrostomy feeding tube. We report a case of peritonitis that occurred subsequent to replacement of a gastrostomy tube in the emergency department.