Esophageal Rupture Secondary to Passage of a Gastric Bubble for Weight Control

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 394-395

  Rubio, Pedro A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; OBESITY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

AGED; ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OBESITY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 0023976274     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1988.01400270134025     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Garren LR, Garren ML: The Garren gastric bubble: An aid to treatment of obesity, abstracted. Gastrointest Endosc 1985;31:162.
2. Percival WL: ‘The balloon diet’: A noninvasive treatment for morbid obesity: Preliminary report of 108 patients. Can J Surg 1984;27:135-136.