Retrospective analysis of abdominal pain in postoperative laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients: is a simple algorithm the answer?

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 587-593

  Agaba, Emmanuel A ^a   Gentles, Charmaine V ^a   Shamseddeen, Hazem ^a   Sasthakonar, Venketesh ^a   Kandel, Anuj ^a   Gadelata, Dominick ^a   Gellman, Larry ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Gastric bypass; Internal hernia; Morbid surgery; Obesity surgery; Small bowel obstruction

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51349121641     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2007.10.015     Document Type: Article

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