[Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. The technic and the indications for a new methodology]

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a worldwide accepted non surgical technique for enteral feeding in patients with prolonged swallowing difficulties or inabilities. PEG was recently introduced in Italy, and experience confirmed that such a technique is easy to perform, cheap, safe, well accepted by patients and carries a very low incidence of complications. In the present work technical procedure and our personal experience are reported; thirteen PEGs were performed our centre and no short nor long-term complications were observed.