TY  - CHAP
AU  - Philip Ng Cheng Hin
ED  - Pavel Kohout
Y1  - 2011-12-02
PY  - 2011
T1  - The Place of Laparoscopic Gastrostomy in the Surgical Armamentarium
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. 6
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/20868
DO  - 10.5772/20868
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-25
ER  -