Small-bowel obstruction after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: Etiology, diagnosis, and management

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 988-993

  Husain, Syed ^a,b   Ahmed, Ahmed R ^a   Johnson, Joseph ^a   Boss, Thad ^a   O'Malley, William ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Highland Hospital Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADHESION; ARTICLE; BLOATING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPHAGIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL PATIENT; VOMITING;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROSCOPY; OBESITY, MORBID; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35348995459     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.10.988     Document Type: Article

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