Bariatric Surgery and Postoperative Imaging

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 155-172

  Kothari, Shanu N ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Complications; Imaging; Laparoscopic gastric bypass

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; DIATRIZOATE; DIGLYCINE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE PLUS SODIUM DIATRIZOATE;

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BARIATRIC SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT EXAMINATION; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; JEJUNOJEJUNOSTOMY HERNIA; JEJUNOJEJUNOSTOMY OBSTRUCTION; MESOCOLIC HERNIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PETERSEN HERNIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGEON; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; ENDOLEAK; GASTRIC BYPASS; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPES; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

EID: 78650256508     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2010.10.013     Document Type: Review

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