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Simple modification of the Gavriliu-Heimlich gastric tube
1Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4198.
Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
A modification of the Gavriliu-Heimlich reversed gastric tube technique is described. We successfully used this method on eight patients. This procedure is more technically simple than the Gavriliu-Heimlich technique, and it avoids the necessity of splenectomy.