A rare complication of nasogastric tube insertion
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A rare complication of nasogastric tube insertion.
1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 44-year-old woman with a background of a mitral valve replacement presented to the emergency department with aphasia. A CT scan of the brain demonstrated an infarction in the territory of the left middle cerebral artery. She was not suitable for thrombolysis and was admitted to the stroke ward where a nasogastric (NG) tube was passed to allow administration of her medicatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1735-1995
DOI: 10.4103/jrms.jrms_838_17