Diagnosis and management of internal hernias after laparoscopic gastric bypass

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1498-1502

  Parakh, Shwetambara ^a,b   Soto, Eliana ^a   Merola, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW YORK HOSPITAL QUEENS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric bypass; Internal hernia; Intestinal obstruction; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH BYPASS; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; BODY MASS; FOLLOW UP; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39749126400     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-008-9429-7     Document Type: Article

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