Surgery: Bariatric surgery in adolescentsthe sooner the better?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 125-126

  Weiss, Ram ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; EARLY INTERVENTION; MORBIDITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77649151309     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2010.1     Document Type: Short Survey

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