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Gastrostomy

Gastrostomy (gastrostomia; Greek gaster, gastros – a stomach + Greek stoma – an opening) – surgery at which outside fistula of a stomach for artificial feeding of the patient for functional switching off of a gullet is created or at its impassability.

 
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