Reinforcing gastric staple-lines with bovine pericardial strips may decrease the likelihood of gastric leak after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-44

  Shikora, Scott A ^a,b   Kim, Julie J ^a   Tarnoff, Michael E ^a  

^a Ctr Minimally Invasive Obesity S   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Bovine pericardium; Gastric bypass; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Peri Strips Dry; Staple line leaks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CATTLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPLER; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH FISTULA; STOMACH POUCH; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE SLICE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTRIC FISTULA; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PERICARDIUM; SURGICAL STAPLING;

EID: 0037328068     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089203321136566     Document Type: Article

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