A stitch in time versus a life in misery

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-5

  Kral, John G ^a  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIATRIC SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EATING HABIT; EDITORIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; JEJUNOILEAL BYPASS; MALNUTRITION; NEUROIMAGING; OBESITY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 33846299960     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2006.11.013     Document Type: Editorial

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