Is biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch the best surgical treatment for super-obese patients?: Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 250-251

  Himpens, Jacques M ^a  

^a SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; BODY MASS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 34248228241     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0791     Document Type: Short Survey

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