External pancreatic juice drainage through a percutaneous endoscopic drainage tube for the patient with a postoperative pancreatic juice leakage.
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has been widely accepted for patients who have no swallowing ability but have an intact gut. Its clinical application is mainly for nutritional support and decompression of the intestine in patients with bowel obstruction. In this paper, we report external pancreatic juice drainage through a percutaneous endoscopic drainage tube in a patient with postoperative pancreatic juice leakage. Soon after this procedure, pancreatic juice leakage subsided. This procedure was minimally invasive for the patient and may be a new application of PEG to maintain the good quality of life (QOL) in a patient with pancreatic juice leakage.
Nishiguchi
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First Department of Surgery Osaka City University Medical School 1-4-3, Asahi-machi Abeno-ku Osaka 545-8585 Japan.
Nishino
H
H
Yoshikawa
K
K
Nakamura
M
M
Takaishi
O
O
Shiba
M
M
Nakamura
H
H
Nomura
T
T
Ikeda
K
K
Ohira
M
M
Asai
T
T
Yamagata
S
S
Takeuchi
K
K
Sowa
M
M
Suzuki
N
N