Patterns of plastic surgical use after gastric bypass: Who can afford it and who will return for more

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 951-958

  Gusenoff, Jeffrey A ^a   Messing, Susan ^a   O'Malley, William ^a   Langstein, Howard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCOME; INSURANCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH BYPASS; AGE; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGERY, PLASTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52049101416     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181811c55     Document Type: Article

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