Percutaneous gastostomy techneques:a comparison between endoscopic and fluoroscopic way

Gastrostomy can provide a necessary nutrition passageway for patients with disturbance of ingestion due to various causes. Many different methods to place the gastrostomy tube, including conventional surgery, have been used. For recent two decades, gastrostomy by using percutaneous endoscopic guidance or percutaneous fluoroscopic guidance technique has rapidly developed. Compared with the conventional surgery, the above two techniques are less invasive and more economical with low occurrence of complications. This paper aims to summarize the clinical applications, indications, technical skills and the complications of both percutaneous endoscopy gastrostomy and percutaneous fluoroscopy gastrostomy, and the comparison between the two methods is also made. (authors)