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Enteral Nutrition via Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy and Nutritional Status of Patients: Five-Year Prospective Study

Fifty-six (65.9%) of the present patients having PEG procedures had neurological disorders. Other indications were nasopharynx cancer, esophagus cancer, and aspiration problems. Percutaneous ...
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Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy: Clinical Applications

John J. Vargo, MD, and Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. Pneumoperitoneum has been observed in 36% of patients undergoing PEG tube placement. [38] It is theorized ...
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Analysis of nationwide trends and outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement in hospitalized cancer patients over a 13 year period.

Romiplostim management of chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia. Phase III open label randomized controlled trial comparing intravenous iron sucrose to oral ferrous sulphate (without erythropoiesis ...
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Timing of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement as supportive care in HNSCC patients (Pts) receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT).

Long-term result of out-patient intra-arterial chemotherapy in patients with stage II and III oral cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not ...
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PEG Tube Placement OK in Centenarian Patients

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