Late sigmoid colon internal herniation into the jejuno-jejunostomy mesenteric defect after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 208-210

  Row, David ^a,b   Maddineni, Sridevi ^a   Maffucci, Leonard ^a   Rangraj, Madhu ^a  

^a Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric bypass; Internal herniation; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Sigmoid colon

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; JEJUNOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORBID OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SIGMOID; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BODY MASS INDEX; COLON, SIGMOID; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; JEJUNOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33644538610     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089206775565087     Document Type: Article

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