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Outpatient management of small bowel obstruction in terminal ovarian cancer
M P Hopkins1, J A Roberts, G W Morley
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109.
The Journal of Reproductive Medicine
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
A technique for home gastric decompression and hydration was developed for use in patients with terminal ovarian cancer and bowel obstruction. In three of four patients undergoing a standard gastrostomy the results were unsatisfactory, requiring reintubation. The two most recent patients on whom the technique was used were able to leave the hospital within two weeks despite their bowel obstruction.