Fluoroscopic-guided nasogastric tube placement in patients with advanced head and neck cancers

Background/Purpose: Enteral feeding, mainly by using a nasogastric tube (NGT), is generally favored over parenteral supplementation in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients with dysphagia. However, the placement of a NGT, either blindly or by endoscopy, is technically challenging in these patients due...

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Autores principales:	Po-Ting Chen, Bo-Ching Lee, Yu-Cheng Huang, Yu-Chien Chang, Hsieh-Ling Tzeng, Kao-Lang Liu
Formato:	Artigo
Lenguaje:	Inglês
Publicado:	Elsevier 2020-08-01
Colección:	Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Materias:	Enteral nutrition/instrumentation* Fluoroscopy/methods* Humans Intubation Gastrointestinal/methods*
Acceso en línea:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664619307806
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