Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 55, Issue 1 , Pages 106-110 , January 2002

Percutaneous transgastric placement of jejunal feeding tubes with an ultrathin endoscope

Received 5 March 2001 ,Accepted 11 April 2001.

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☆ Reprint requests: Todd H. Baron, MD, 200 First Street SW, Eisenberg 8A, Rochester, MN 55905.

PII: S0016-5107(02)13660-1

doi: 10.1067/mge.2002.119257

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 55, Issue 1 , Pages 106-110 , January 2002

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