Introduction PEG feeding in patients with head and neck and upper GI cancers is known to derive ... Gastropexy is an alternative technique which allows insertion of a gastrostomy tube with outside-in ...

Methods A 6-year retrospective review of PEG tube placements in patients with compound hiatus hernia. All patients had prior failed attempts using the conventional ‘finger indentation’ technique. The ...

A 53-year-old man with dysphagia underwent uneventful placement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube for long-term enteral feeding access. 11 hours after the procedure, it was ...

As preoperative assessment for GOR may not predict which patients will develop GOR after gastrostomy some physicians recommend a clinical trial of nasogastric tube feeding for two weeks, and if this ...