Band infection with splenoportal venous thrombosis: An unusual but severe complication of gastric banding

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 699-702

  Calmes, J M ^a   Bettschart, V ^a   Raffoul, W ^a   Suter, Michel ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Gastric banding; Gastric bypass; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Sepsis; Splenic vein thrombosis; Surgical complication

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; HEPARIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; LIPECTOMY; MORBID OBESITY; OTITIS; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SPLENIC VEIN; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GASTROPLASTY; HEPARIN; HUMANS; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPLENIC VEIN; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036807001     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089202321019729     Document Type: Article

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