The 13th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, Quebec City, Canada, 12-15 June 1996: Adjustments and leak detection of the adjustable silicone gastric band (ASGB) and lap-band® adjustable gastric band (LAGB) system

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 406-411

  Miller, Karl ^a,c   Rettenbacher, Lukas ^a   Hell, Emanuel ^b  

^a Salzburger Landeskliniken   (Austria)

^b Krankenhaus Hallein   (Austria)

^c Second Surgical Department   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; SILICONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THALLIUM CHLORIDE TL 201;

CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MORBID OBESITY; NEEDLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; STOMA; STOMACH SURGERY;

EID: 0029842330     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089296765556467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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