| Autor: |
Hameed H; Department of Medicine, Shakat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan. hameed142@hotmail.com, Khan YI |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
The British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery [Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg] 2009 Dec; Vol. 47 (8), pp. 643-4. Date of Electronic Publication: 2008 Dec 30. |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.bjoms.2008.10.015 |
| Abstrakt: |
Patients with head and neck cancers need a percutaneous endoscopic gastrosotomy (PEG) before start of treatment to ensure adequate nutrition because worsening dysphagia during chemo radiation [Nicholson FB, Korman MG, Richardson MA. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: a review of indications, complications and outcome. J. Gastroenterol Hepatol 2000; 15: 21-5; Beer KT, Krause KB, Zuercher T, Stanga Z. Early percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion maintains nutritional state in patients with aerodigestive tract cancer. Nutr Cancer 2005; 52: 29-34.]. However implantation of original tumor to the gastrostomy exit site is rare but serious complication of this procedure and here we report a case of PEG site metastasis along with relevant review of literature. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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