Update on Sleeve Gastrectomy Leak Rate with the Use of Reinforcement

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 146-150

  Gagner, Michel ^a,b   Brown, Melissa ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c W L GORE AND ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL MESH; ANIMAL; GASTRECTOMY; OBESITY, MORBID; PROCEDURES; SURGICAL STAPLING;

ANIMALS; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; SURGICAL STAPLING;

EID: 84952989999     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-015-1899-9     Document Type: Letter

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