Gastrostomy tube pancreatitis

1 July 1988

journal article
research article
Published by Springer Nature in Pediatric Radiology

Vol. 18 (5) , 416-417
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02388052

Abstract

Acute pancreatitis developed in a child following inadvertent placement of a gastrostomy tube balloon in the descending duodenum. After a gastrostomy tube is inserted, radiologic confirmation of correct tube position is recommended to help avoid this rare iatrogenic complication.

Keywords

PUBLIC HEALTH
PANCREATITIS
ACUTE PANCREATITIS
GASTROSTOMY TUBE
TUBE POSITION

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