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01.06.2014 | Head and Neck
Prophylactic percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in head and neck cancer patients: results of tertiary institute
verfasst von:
Jaakko Pulkkinen, Jami Rekola, Mari Asanti, Reidar Grénman
Erschienen in:
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
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Ausgabe 6/2014
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Abstract
To evaluate the use and complications of a prophylactic percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) in head and cancer patients in our institute. A retrospective study of 194 consecutive patients with a newly diagnosed upper aero digestive tract malignancy who underwent mainly prophylactic PEG tube placement. The procedure is relatively safe: 15 (7.7 %) of the complications were considered serious; no deaths occurred. Of the patients 23 (12.5 %) did not use the PEG tube at all, but it was not possible to single out a group of patients in which this could be predicted. The majority of the patients were considered to benefit from the prophylactic PEG insertion.