title: [Initial experience with percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in a surgery department].
abstract: The authors present their initial experience with percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and draw attention to its advantages and risks. As a basis they use their own group of patients, most of them in a very poor condition where it proved possible to ensure by this method enteral nutrition on a long-term basis.
authors.affiliation: II. chirurgická klinika FN u sv. Anny, Brno.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Piskac
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leypold
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hnízdil
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Petrik
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Riebel
mesh_terms: D019723:Endoscopes; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011677:Punctures