title: Specialized nutrition support: the pediatric perspective.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. schwenk.frederick@mayo.edu
authors.forename: W Frederick
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Schwenk
mesh_terms: 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