Assessment of routine elimination of postoperative nasogastric decompression after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 844-848

  Huerta, Sergio ^a   Arteaga, James R ^a   Sawicki, Mark P ^a   Liu, Carson D ^a   Livingston, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SAFETY; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK;

EID: 0036871476     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2002.127678     Document Type: Article

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