Stent migration causing alimentary limb obstruction necessitating laparotomy and surgical stent extraction

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 375-377

  Efthimiou, Evangelos ^a   Stein, Larry ^a   Szego, Peter ^a   Court, Olivier ^a   Christou, Nicolas ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE HEMATOMA; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALAISE; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TACHYCARDIA; VOMITING;

DEVICE REMOVAL; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; STENTS;

EID: 67349217828     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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