Infant who is having difficulty being fed through their feeding tube

Gastrointestinal
AXR of kink in feeding tube
AXR AP shows the tip of the nasogastric tube to be in the body of the stomach. The tip of the feeding tube is transpyloric in position at the duodenal jeujunal junction. However, the feeding tube lumen is kinked in the body of the stomach.

The diagnosis was feeding tube malfunction due to a kink in the feeding tube.

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