Obesity: An innately incurable disease?

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 244-249

  Husemann, Bernhard J ^a  

^a Dominikus Krankenhaus Dusseldorf Heerdt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastric banding; Morbid obesity; Regain of weight; Revisional surgery; Staple line disruption; Surgical treatment; Vertical gastroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROPLASTY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL STAPLING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

BODY MASS INDEX; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURES; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0032801511     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089299765553106     Document Type: Article

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