title: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy made easier.
abstract: The use of a Fogarty catheter instead of a silk suture in performing an endoscopic gastrostomy offers several advantages. It avoids the problems of stomach deflation, the stomach slipping off the intravenous cannula, the troublesome passage of a soft suture through a small caliber tube and grasping a soft mobile object in the stomach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St. Francois d'Assise Hospital, Quebec City, Canada.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Gregoire
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rousseau
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lacerte
mesh_terms: D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D005773:Gastroscopy; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans