Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG): cui bono?

摘要

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) insertion became a routine and commonly performed procedure in the early 1990s. PEG feeding was enthusiastically adopted as a treatment for a wide variety of swallowing and nutritional problems. Compared with surgical gastrostomy, it was relatively non-invasive and low-risk, and endoscopists, in the early years of PEG, functioned primarily as technicians, acting on the instruction of physicians from other disciplines.