Role of intraoperative esophagogastroenteroscopy in minimizing gastrojejunostomy-related morbidity: Experience with 2,311 laparoscopic gastric bypasses with linear stapler anastomosis

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1928-1933

  Haddad, Ashraf ^a   Tapazoglou, Nicholas ^a   Singh, Kuldeep ^a   Averbach, Andrew ^a  

^a ST AGNES HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastrojejunostomy leak rate; Intraoperative esophagogastroenteroscopy; LRYGB

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGOGASTROENTEROSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LINEAR STAPLER ANASTOMOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH BYPASS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL STAPLERS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878892097     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-012-0757-2     Document Type: Article

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