Potential impacts of nutritional deficiency of postbariatric patients on body contouring surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1901-1914

  Agha Mohammadi, Siamak ^a,b   Hurwitz, Dennis J ^a,b  

^a Hurwitz Center for Plastic Surgery   (United States)

^b Plastic Surgery Body Contouring Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; IRON; PROTEIN; RETINOL; SELENIUM; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; ZINC;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY COMPOSITION; COPPER DEFICIENCY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROPLASTY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; IRON DEFICIENCY; MACRONUTRIENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN INTAKE; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND HEALING; ZINC DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; MALNUTRITION; MORBID OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALNUTRITION; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGERY, PLASTIC; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 58149395568     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818d20d6     Document Type: Review

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