Acute, complete proximal small bowel obstruction after laparoscopic gastric bypass due to intraluminal blood clot formation

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 418-422

  Awais, Omar ^a   Raftopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Luketich, James D ^a   Courcoulas, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric bypass; Laparoscopy; Small bowel obstruction

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE HEMATOMA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; JEJUNOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORD; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL STAPLING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ADULT; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROSCOPY; OBESITY, MORBID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646449342     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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