Year 2019 / Volume 111 / Number 12
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The one that got away: a rare complication after PEG tube placement

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2019.6426/2019

Tiago Leal, Dalila Costa, Raquel Gonçalves,

Abstract
A 74 year-old male patient was admitted to the emergency department due to diarrhea of a one-month duration. The patient had 5 to 7 bowel movements/day of liquid stool, without blood or mucus. He had also undergone a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement 10 weeks previously due to post-stroke dysphagia, with endoscopic confirmation of its correct positioning. A course of antibiotics had already been prescribed and there was no improvement of the symptoms.
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Publication history

Received: 03/06/2019

Accepted: 03/07/2019

Online First: 15/11/2019

Published: 05/12/2019

Article Online First time: 165 days

Article editing time: 185 days


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