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Comparison between nasogastric tube feeding and percutaneous fluoroscopic gastrostomy in advanced head and neck cancer patients

✍ Scribed by Nicolas Magné; P. Y. Marcy; C. Foa; M. N. Falewee; M. Schneider; F. Demard; R. J. Bensadoun

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
30 KB
Volume
258
Category
Article
ISSN
0302-9530

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