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Case Reports
. 1981;38(7-8):391-2.

[Lethal complication related to the per-operative insertion of a naso-gastric tube. A case (author's transl)]

[Article in French]
H Bricard, C Carmes, B Sillard, P Ségol, J Quesnel
  • PMID: 7305048
Case Reports

[Lethal complication related to the per-operative insertion of a naso-gastric tube. A case (author's transl)]

[Article in French]
H Bricard et al. Anesth Analg (Paris). 1981.

Abstract

The patient who was operated on for the recurrence of a colic cancer had an unknown pituitary adenoma. The adenoma was destructing partly the anterior basis of the skull and was protruding in the nasal fossae. The naso-gastric tube entered without any difficulty the right cerebral hemisphere creating lethal cerebral lesions. Some reflexions determined by this very rare condition are discussed.

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