Diagnostic medical radiation dose in patients after laparoscopic bariatric surgery

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 569-573

  Oei, Tamara N ^a   Shyn, Paul B ^a   Govindarajulu, Usha ^a   Flint, Richard ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Diagnostic medical radiation; Laparoscopic gastric band; Laparoscopic roux en y gastric bypass; Postoperative radiology studies; Radiation dose; Radiology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; ILEITIS; INTERNAL HERNIA; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; INTESTINE HEMATOMA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH FISTULA;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOLOGIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953286284     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-009-9966-8     Document Type: Article

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