Gastrointestinal complications after vertical banded gastroplasty

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 215-217

  Papakonstantinou, A ^a,b   Alfaras, P ^a   Komessidou, V ^a   Hadjiyannakis, E ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal complications; Gastroplasty; Morbid obesity; Obesity surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLELITHIASIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROPLASTY; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STOMACH PERFORATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; REOPERATION;

EID: 0031840740     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089298765554845     Document Type: Article

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