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SMALL BOWEL FISTULA: A COMPLICATION OF PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY INSERTION
Author(s) -
Evans P. M.,
Serpell J. W.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1994.tb02273.x
Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy , surgery , enterocutaneous fistula , complication , peg ratio , fistula , jejunum , gastrostomy , enteral administration , percutaneous , parenteral nutrition , feeding tube , finance , economics
A 22 year old man who sustained a severe closed head injury after a high speed motor car accident underwent routine placement of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) for feeding purposes. Nine days after its insertion an enterocutaneous fistula was diagnosed around the PEG tube. A loop of mid‐jejunum had been transfixed during the insertion of the PEG.