Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in morbidly obese patients ≥55 years old

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 656-659

  Fazylov, Rafael ^a,b   Soto, Eliana ^a   Merola, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW YORK HOSPITAL QUEENS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Diabetes mellitus; Gastric bypass; Hypertension; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; ANASTOMOTIC STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 43149126308     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9364-z     Document Type: Article

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