title: Gastrostomy tube transmigration: a rare cause of small bowel obstruction.
abstract: A 77-year-old woman with an indwelling gastrostomy tube presented with a clinical picture of pneumonia and small bowel obstruction. During gastrostomy closure and performance of a feeding jejunostomy, inadvertent transmigration of the gastrostomy tube was found to be the etiology of the small intestinal obstruction. This case illustrates a rare complication of enteric feeding tubes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina 28232-2861.
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: O'Dell
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Becker
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications*; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007421:Intestine, Small