Three hundred laparoscopic roux-en-y gastric bypasses: Managing the learning curve in higher risk patients

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 290-294

  Pournaras, Dimitrios J ^a   Jafferbhoy, Sadaf ^a   Titcomb, Daniel R ^a   Humadi, Samer ^a   Edmond, Janet R ^a   Mahon, David ^a   Welbourn, Richard ^a  

^a MUSGROVE PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Laparoscopic gastric bypass; Learning curve; Obesity Surgery Mortality Risk Score; Roux en Y gastric bypass

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; STOMACH BYPASS;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; MALE; MENTORS; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949271606     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-009-9914-7     Document Type: Article

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