Intragastric balloon as an alternative restrictive procedure for morbid obesity

Annals of Gastroenterology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 285-288

  Kotzampassi, Katerina ^a,b   Eleftheriadis, E ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

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