A short or a long Roux limb in gastric bypass surgery: does it matter?

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1882-1890

  Dogan, Kemal ^a   Homan, Jens ^a   Aarts, Edo O ^a   van Laarhoven, Cees J H M ^b   Janssen, Ignace M C ^a   Berends, Frits J ^a  

^a RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alimentary limb; Complication; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Roux en Y gastric bypass; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALIMENTARY LIMB; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CHOLELITHIASIS; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL STAPLER; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERNAL HERNIA; INTESTINE GRAFT; JEJUNUM ULCER; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH POUCH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84983398896     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-016-5188-z     Document Type: Article

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