Percutaneous radiological gastrostomy in patients with head and neck cancer.

To evaluate the results of percutaneous radiological gastrostomy in patients with head and neck cancer. This was a retrospective study design. One hundred and eighteen patients with head and neck cancer were referred 130 times for gastrostomy tube placement between 1 April 1993 and 17 August 1998. Mean age was 60 years. All data were analysed by using the following parameters: success rate, complications and mortality. Complications were divided into major, minor (complication that needed only conservative treatment) and tube-related. The success rate of percutaneous radiological gastrostomy was 97%. Major complications occurred in 6% of patients after gastrostomy tube placement. Minor complications occurred in 15% of patients. There was one tube-related complication. Procedure-related mortality occurred in one patient. The results of this study show no difference from those known from the literature for the percutaneous method and confirm that radiological gastrostomy has significantly lower rates of major complications than other methods of gastrostomy placement. Percutaneous radiological gastrostomy tube placement is, in our opinion, an effective and reliable method for placing a feeding tube in patients with head and neck cancer.

Deurloo EE ，Schultze Kool LJ ，Kröger R ，van Coevorden F ，Balm AJ ... -  《EJSO》

Prophylactic gastrostomy placement and early tube feeding may limit loss of weight during chemoradiotherapy for advanced head and neck cancer, a preliminary study.

Wiggenraad RG ，Flierman L ，Goossens A ，Brand R ，Verschuur HP ，Croll GA ，Moser LE ，Vriesendorp R ... -  《CLINICAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY》

Percutaneous endoscopic, radiological and surgical gastrostomy tubes: a comparison study in head and neck cancer patients.

Rustom IK ，Jebreel A ，Tayyab M ，England RJ ，Stafford ND ... -  《JOURNAL OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY》

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube feeding in patients with head and neck cancer.

Baredes S ，Behin D ，Deitch E 《ENT-EAR NOSE & THROAT JOURNAL》

Timing of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement in head and neck cancer patients.

Raynor EM ，Williams MF ，Martindale RG ，Porubsky ES ... -  《OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY》