Five-year outcome with gastric bypass: Roux limb length makes a difference

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 242-247

  Gleysteen, John J ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI change; Gastric bypass; Obesity; Roux limb; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIDIVISM; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; SUPER OBESITY; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 62549099993     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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