Technical modifications for improving the success rate of PEG tube placement in patients with head and neck cancer.

Background: Patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) benefit from nutritional support by means of PEG tubes, but endoscopy may be impossible when there is partial or complete trismus and/or stenosis or occlusion of the upper aerodigestive tract.

Methods: PEG tubes were placed in 277 patients with HNC. Oral insertion of an endoscope into the esophagus was impossible in 27 patients.

[Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: experience of three years].

Unlabelled: Patients who are not able to eat do need tube feeding. The most preferred way of artificial enteral nutritional support is feeding via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes. Head and neck cancer patients do represent a special group of patients needing a PEG.

[Experience with cytostatic therapy of stomach cancer].

The authors have been working on the cytostatic treatment of gastric cancer since 1982. The patients were divided into two groups. Group 1.