Gastrostomy tube transmigration: a rare cause of small bowel obstruction.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 77-year-old woman with an indwelling gastrostomy tube presented with a clinical picture of pneumonia and small bowel obstruction. During gastrostomy closure and performance of a feeding jejunostomy, inadvertent transmigration of the gastrostomy tube was found to be the etiology of the small intestinal obstruction. This case illustrates a rare complication of enteric feeding tubes.
Medical subject headings
- Foreign-Body Migration
- Gastrostomy
- Intestinal Obstruction