Routine abdominal drains after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: A retrospective review of 593 patients

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1203-1207

  Chousleb, Elias ^a   Szomstein, Samuel ^a   Podkameni, David ^a   Soto, Flavia ^a   Lomenzo, Emanuele ^a   Higa, Guillermo ^a   Kennedy, Colleen ^a   Villares, Alexander ^a   Arias, Fernando ^a   Antozzi, Priscila ^a   Zundel, Natan ^a   Rosenthal, Raul ^a  

^a Bariatric Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Complications; Drains; Laparoscopic gastric bypass; Morbid obesity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ADULT; ATELECTASIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; INTESTINE STENOSIS; JEJUNOSTOMY; JEJUNUM ULCER; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBID OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND INFECTION;

ATELECTASIS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 7644232928     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/0960892042387101     Document Type: Review

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