Preventing staple-line leak in sleeve gastrectomy: Reinforcement with bovine pericardium vs oversewing

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1915-1921

  Al Hajj, Georges Nabih ^a   Haddad, Johnny ^a  

^a Middle East Institute of Health (MEIH)   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Bovine pericardium; Buttress material; Gastric leak; Laparoscopic; Morbid obesity; Sleeve gastrectomy; Staple line reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; BODY MASS; BOVINE PERICARDIAL STRIP; BUTTRESSING; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STAPLER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OVERSEWING; PATIENT SAFETY; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; SPLEEN INFARCTION; STAPLE LINE LEAK; STOMACH FISTULA; STOMACH OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL STAPLING; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BODY MASS INDEX; CATTLE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC FISTULA; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84885475671     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-013-1062-4     Document Type: Review

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