Obesity surgery: Pros and cons

Journal of Endocrinological Investigation

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 925-928

  Waitman, J A ^b   Aronne, Louis J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Obesity; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; VITAMIN;

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ATELECTASIS; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; GALLSTONE; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; GASTROPLASTY; HERNIA; HUMAN; JEJUNUM ULCER; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG EMBOLISM; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PYLORUS STENOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPLEEN INJURY; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION; EVALUATION; GASTROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROPLASTY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 0036860397     PISSN: 03914097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03344059     Document Type: Review

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