Four Hundred Fifty Consecutive Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypasses with No Mortality and Declining Leak Rates and Lengths of Stay in a Bariatric Training Program

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 206, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 940-944

  Maher, James W ^a   Martin Hawver, Lisa ^a   Pucci, Anthony ^a   Wolfe, Luke G ^a   Meador, Jill G ^a   Kellum, John M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROJEJEJUNOSTOMY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERNAL HERNIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; JEJUNOJEJUNOSTOMY; JEJUNOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SAMPLING; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH ULCER; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; WEIGHT; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BARIATRIC SURGERY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 40849149942     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.12.043     Document Type: Article

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