A small flexible tube goes down your nose, to the back of your throat, down your food pipe (oesophagus), through your stomach and into your small intestine (jejunum). A NJ tube is used when you can’t use your stomach.

In difficult cases, tube insertion is undertaken under fluoroscopic guidance.

Together with the use of water-soluble contrast media and over-the-wire technique, fluoroscopy-guided placement of nasojejunal feeding tubes offers a higher rate of technical success while decreasing procedure time as well as the incidence of procedure-related complications.