Common Gastrostomy Feeding Tube Complications and Troubleshooting.

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas.

Published: December 2018

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