Water-soluble upper GI based on clinical findings is reliable to detect anastomotic leaks after laparoscopic gastric bypass

American Surgeon

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 916-918

  Katasani, V G ^a   Leeth, R R ^a   Tishler, D S ^a   Leath, T D ^a   Roy, B P ^a   Canon, C L ^b   Vickers, S M ^a   Clements, Ronald H ^a,c  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE; WATER;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLUBILITY; STOMACH; STOMACH BYPASS;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLUBILITY; STOMACH; WATER;

EID: 33644788682     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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