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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: a nonoperative technique for feeding gastrostomy
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
|February 1, 1981
Abstract:
Feeding gastrostomy is a useful means of providing nutrition in patients unable to swallow. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy provides a means for creating a feeding gastrostomy without the necessity for laparotomy. It adds a new tool to the armamentarium of the therapeutic endoscopist.