Two years of practice in adjustable silicone gastric banding (LAP-BAND®): Evaluation of variations of body mass index, percentage ideal body weight and percentage excess body weight

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-52

  Forestieri, Pietro ^a   Meucci, Luigi ^a,b   De Luca, Maurizio ^a   Formato, Antonio ^a   De Werra, Carlo ^a   Chiacchio, Clelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gastric banding; Gastric restriction procedures; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GASTROPLASTY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENOSIS; STOMA; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; REOPERATION;

EID: 0031940360     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089298765555051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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