Laparoscopic antecolic Roux-En-Y gastric bypass with closure of internal defects leads to fewer internal hernias than the retrocolic approach

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2056-2061

  Steele, K E ^a   Prokopowicz, G P ^a   Magnuson, T ^a   Lidor, A ^a   Schweitzer, M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric bypass; Internal hernia; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLON MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL HERNIA; JEJUNOSTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; GASTRIC BYPASS; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 51349102703     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-9749-7     Document Type: Article

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