Complications of bariatric surgery

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 636-643

  Lee, Calvin W ^a   Kelly, John J ^a   Wassef, Wahid Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Surgical complications; Therapeutic endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SCLEROSING AGENT; SEALANT; STOMACH SECRETION INHIBITOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; CHOLELITHIASIS; DIARRHEA; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; JEJUNUM ULCER; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; STENOSIS; STENT; STOMACH BYPASS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION; DIARRHEA; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; OBESITY, MORBID; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 34848878371     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0b013e3282f094b5     Document Type: Review

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