title: [Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. The technic and the indications for a new methodology].
abstract: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a worldwide accepted non surgical technique for enteral feeding in patients with prolonged swallowing difficulties or inabilities. PEG was recently introduced in Italy, and experience confirmed that such a technique is easy to perform, cheap, safe, well accepted by patients and carries a very low incidence of complications. In the present work technical procedure and our personal experience are reported; thirteen PEGs were performed our centre and no short nor long-term complications were observed.
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authors.lastname: Guidi
mesh_terms: D000075202:Contraindications; D020699:Gastroscopes; D005773:Gastroscopy / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Gastrostomia percutanea endoscopica. Tecnica ed indicazioni di una nuova metodica.