Splenic infarction as a complication of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy

Introduction: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) as a stand-alone or a first step in the biliopancreatic diversion –duodenal switch (BPD-DS) procedure is frequently the surgery of choice for the 21st century’s epidemic of morbid obesity.To date, LSG as a relatively new method has few complication...

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Main Authors: Maciej Michalik, Roman Budziński, Michał Orłowski, Agata Frask, Maciej Bobowicz, Anna Trybull, Paweł Lech, Maciej Pawlak, Konrad Szydłowski, Grzegorz Wallner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Termedia Publishing House 2011-06-01
Series:Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques
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Online Access:http://www.termedia.pl/Original-paper-Splenic-infarction-as-a-complication-of-laparoscopic-sleeve-gastrectomy,42,16933,1,0.html