TY  - CHAP
AU  - Jason Foster
AU  - Peter Filocamo
AU  - William Brady
AU  - Thom Loree
AU  - John F. Gibbs
ED  - Pavel Kohout
Y1  - 2011-12-02
PY  - 2011
T1  - Defining the Indications for Prophylactic Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tubes in Surgically Treated Head and Neck Cancer Patients
N2  - The gastrostomy placement is a method of providing nutrition to the patients who are unable to eat. In this book you can find chapters focused on the use of gastrostomy in children, patients with neurological impairment and patients with head and neck tumours. Home enteral nutrition is suitable for all of these groups of patients and is far easier with gastrostomy. The new indications (especially in very young children) required new techniques such as: laparoscopic gastrostomy, laparoscopy assisted endoscopic gastrostomy with/without fundoplication, ultrasonography assisted gastronomy. All information about these techniques can be found in this book. This book does not serve as a basic textbook, but as an interesting reading material and as an aid for physicians who are already familiar with the indication for gastrostomy and want to know more.
BT  - Gastrostomy
SP  - Ch. 5
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/24708
DO  - 10.5772/24708
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-23
ER  -