Optimization of Access-Port Placement for the LapBand® System

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 909-912

  Spivak, Hadar ^a,b   Gold, David ^a,b   Guerrero, Carlos ^a,b  

^a San Jacinto Methodist Hospital   (United States)

^b Park Plaza Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Access port; Adjustable gastric banding; Bariatric surgery; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ACCESS PORT; ACCESS PORT PLACEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DESTRUCTION; DEVICE FIXATION; FASCIA; FEMALE; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; STERNUM; SUBCOSTAL FASCIA; SUBCOSTAL MARGIN; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TILTING;

ADULT; FEMALE; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0346887076     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089203322618759     Document Type: Article

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