Specialized nutrition support: the pediatric perspective.
Nutrition support may be more important in children than in adults. The first reports of the use of parenteral nutrition and of parentaneous endoscopic gastrostomies were in children. A number of unresolved questions in this area remain and will be answered by a coordinated effort of the nutrition community.
Schwenk
W Frederick
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Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. schwenk.frederick@mayo.edu
D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018529:Nutritional Support; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D010372:Pediatrics; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States