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Open Access Research in Anatomy

Direct Puncture Endoscopic Assisted Gastrostomy: An Alternative Technique, Case Report

  • Open or Close Manuel Cadena1, Jaime Solano3, Andrés Salazar2, José Antonio Hakim1, Maria Jose Vergara3 and Arturo Vergara4

    1Departamento de Cirugía general, Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia

    2Departamento de Gastroenterología, Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia

    3Medico General Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

    4Servicio de Soporte Metabólico y Nutricional, Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia

    *Corresponding author: Manuel Cadena, Departamento de Cirugía general, Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia

Submission: December 11, 2017; Published: January 10, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/OARA.2018.01.000513

ISSN: 2577-1922
Volume1 Issue3

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Enteral feeding benefits are worldly renown, severely ill patients and oncological patients have better outcomes, survival rates and improvement in-quality life standards [1-6]. Gastrostomy is the procedure ideal for management of these chronic and ill patients [7]. Within many available techniques PEG tube is an effective access to provide enteral feeding for patients with impaired oral intake, and now a day’s oncologic patients have become a demand group for enteral nutrition [2,5,7-10], especially the ones coursing with head, neck and esophagealneoplasia. 33-69% of patients that need chemo-radiotherapy for upper aero digestive tract require PEG tube placement [11-13].

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