Transoral endoscopic closure of gastric fistula

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 283-284

  Schweitzer, Michael ^a   Steele, Kimberley ^a   Mitchell, Mack ^a   Okolo, Patrick ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STENT; STOMACH FISTULA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC FISTULA; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62549118256     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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