Oral feeding after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding.
Cite this as: BMJ 2010;340:c2414 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c2414 Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding, introduced into clinical practice in 1980, is now established as an effective way of providing enteral feeding to patients who have functionally normal gastrointestinal tracts but who cannot meet their nutritional needs because of inadequate oral intake. It is the preferred method of feedi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0815-9319
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2010.06320.x