11-Year experience with laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding for morbid obesity - What happened to the first 123 patients?

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-255

  Tolonen, Pekka ^a   Victorzon, Mikael ^a   Mäkelä, Jyrki ^b  

^a VAASA CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Follow up; Laparoscopic adjustable gastris banding; Long term; Morbid obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; REOPERATION;

EID: 40049103251     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9267-z     Document Type: Article

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