F Seguel Ramírez, J C Ollero Fresno, P Morató Robert, V Rollán Villamarín, M Alvarez Bernaldo de Quirós
The Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has radically changed the handling of the children with nutritional problems that until then were forced to receive nutritionals contributions by parenteral or enteral way, by nasogastric tube, conventional surgical gastrostomy or by central venous access. The objective of this work was to evaluate our experience with 60 patients, with diverse pathologies, that needed a PEG so that they could receive a suitable nutritional contribution. Were registered data of age, sex, reason for the accomplishment of the PEG, used surgical time, days of hospital stay and we analyzed the complications derived from the technique...
July 2003: Cirugía Pediátrica: Organo Oficial de la Sociedad Española de Cirugía Pediátrica