Current attitudes to the laparoscopic bariatric operations among European surgeons

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1247-1251

  Rivas, Homero ^a,b   Martínez, José Luis ^a   Delgado, Salva ^a   Vidal, Jusep ^a   Lacy, Antonio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Biliopancreatic diversion; Body mass index; Gastric banding; Gastric bypass; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Vertical banded gastroplasty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALLOON; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; BODY MASS; EUROPE; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROPLASTY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORBID OBESITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REOPERATION; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGEON;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPE; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 7644229155     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/0960892042386878     Document Type: Article

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