Complications of adjustable gastric banding

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1249-1264

  Snow, Jay Michael ^a   Severson, Paul A ^a  

^a Minnesota Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustable gastric banding; Complications; Revisional surgery

Indexed keywords

ATELECTASIS; COUGHING; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ESOPHAGUS FAILURE; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POUCH DILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLEEN DISEASE; STOMACH OBSTRUCTION; TISSUE INJURY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION FAILURE;

DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; ESOPHAGUS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MANOMETRY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROLAPSE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REOPERATION; STOMACH DISEASES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 80455177235     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2011.08.008     Document Type: Review

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