[Lethal complication related to the per-operative insertion of a naso-gastric tube. A case (author's transl)]

The patient who was operated on for the recurrence of a colic cancer had an unknown pituitary adenoma. The adenoma was destructing partly the anterior basis of the skull and was protruding in the nasal fossae. The naso-gastric tube entered without any difficulty the right cerebral hemisphere creating lethal cerebral lesions. Some reflexions determined by this very rare condition are discussed.