Comparing outcomes of laparoscopic versus open bariatric surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-15

  Weller, Wendy E ^a,c   Rosati, Carl ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LACERATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY STOMACH BYPASS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OPEN STOMACH BYPASS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHLEBITIS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; STROKE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; ADOLESCENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48949118952     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31816d953a     Document Type: Article

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