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Case Reports
. 2000 Jul;49(1):163-5.
doi: 10.1097/00005373-200007000-00027.

Small bowel necrosis associated with early postoperative jejunal tube feeding in a trauma patient

I A Munshi  1 , J S Steingrub, L Wolpert
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Small bowel necrosis associated with early postoperative jejunal tube feeding in a trauma patient

I A Munshi et al. J Trauma. 2000 Jul.

Abstract

Several investigators have reported the association of small bowel ischemia and necrosis with needle catheter jejunostomy. We report a case of small bowel necrosis with continuous jejunal tube feeding and review the pathogenesis implicated in feeding-induced bowel necrosis.

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