Internal hernia formation after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 640-643

  Filip, Jennifer E ^a   Mattar, Samer G ^a   Bowers, Steven P ^a   Smith, C Daniel ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBID OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL RISK; SUTURING METHOD; VOMITING; ARTICLE; HERNIA; MESOCOLON; METHODOLOGY; PERITONEAL DISEASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HERNIA; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MESOCOLON; OBESITY, MORBID; PERITONEAL DISEASES;

EID: 0036633721     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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