Autopsy findings following gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1091-1095

  Melinek, Judy ^a   Livingston, Edward ^a   Cortina, Galen ^a   Fishbein, Michael C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BYPASS SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROPHYLAXIS; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036770451     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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