Article: ‘Nutrothorax’ due to misplacement of a nasogastric feeding tube (abstract) - November 2006 - NJM
Issue: 2006 > November > letter to the editor



LETTER TO THE EDITOR
L.E.M. Haas, D.H.T. Tjan, A.R.H. van Zanten
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Abstract

we report a serious complication of blind nasogastric feeding tube insertion in a 65-year-old female patient, which was overlooked and caused severe respiratory failure.