PEDIATRICS Vol. 26 No. 1 July 1960, pp. 36-41
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TEMPORARY GASTROSTOMY IN PEDIATRIC SURGERY

Experience with 187 Cases

Thomas M. Holder M.D.1 and Robert E. Gross M.D.1

1 Surgical Service of the Children's Hospital, Boston, and the Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

It is difficult to evaluate critically the credit side of the ledger as to the actual number of lives saved or the decrease in morbidity. It is our clinical impression that the more liberal use of the temporary gastrostomy in babies is the most significant single improvement made in this institution in the past few years in the general care of the small surgical patient.