Adjustable silicone gastric banding: Complications in a personal series

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 207-209

  Lucchese, Marcello ^a,b   Alessio, Fabrizio ^a   Valeri, Andrea ^a   Cantelli, Giovanni ^a   Venneri, Francesco ^a   Borrelli, Domenico ^a  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Dept of Gen and Vascular Surgery ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Gastric banding; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Surgical complications

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN FISTULA; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SILICONES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0031840016     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089298765554827     Document Type: Article

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