American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery estimation of bariatric surgery procedures in the United States, 2011-2014

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1199-1200

  Ponce, Jaime ^a   Nguyen, Ninh T ^b   Hutter, Matthew ^c   Sudan, Ranjan ^d   Morton, John M ^e  

^a Chattanooga Bariatrics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ASMBS; Bariatric surgery numbers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; STOMACH BYPASS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY, MORBID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MORBIDITY; OBESITY, MORBID; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84952876601     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: 18787533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2015.08.496     Document Type: Review

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