Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy made easier.
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.
Gregoire
R C
RC
Department of Surgery, St. Francois d'Assise Hospital, Quebec City, Canada.
Morin
J
J
Rousseau
B
B
Lacerte
M
M
D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D005773:Gastroscopy; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans