A CASE OF A STEERING WHEEL INJURY REQUIRING PANCREATICO-GASTROSTOMY, GASTRO-JEJUNOSTOMY, AND HEPATO-JEJUNOSTOMY

Gastro-Jejunostomy with a Bamboo Clamp

Sir,?A male patient, aged about 35 years, a Kapu by caste, came to the London Mission Hospital, Kamalapuram, in July 1924, suffering from abdominal pain with discomfort and vomiting, of 6 or 7 years' duration. On examination of the case a diagnosis of pyloric stenosis was made and a date fixed for operation. As the equipment at this branch hospital was inadequate for the operation, a message wa...

Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy, Duodenostomy and Jejunostomy

Although enteral feeding by nasal gastric tube is popular for the patients who have a swallowing disability and require long-term nutritional support, but have intact gut, this tube sometimes causes aspiration pneumonia or esophageal ulcer. For these patients, conventional techniques for performance of a feeding gastrostomy made by surgical laparotomy have been used so far. However, these patie...

Jejunostomy Tubes: through Gastrostomy or Nasal

The benefits of enteral feeding in critically ill animals have been clearly established and include preservation of the mucosal integrity of the gut, reduction in rates of sepsis and augmentation of the host immune defense mechanisms. A multitude of tube types and techniques for tube insertion have been reported but fundamentally speaking, the decision for the type of enteral feeding required c...

Endoscopic pancreatography in evaluating results of pancreatico-jejunostomy.

It has been difficult, employing clinical methods, to establish whether pancreatico-enteric drainage shunts for chronic pancreatitis have remained patent and how the operation has affected the inflammatory changes and ductal pathological morphology. In an attempt objectively to evaluate postoperative results, 13 patients with two different types of pancreatico-jejunostomies were examined with e...

A Few Points on the Technique of Gastro-Jejunostomy