• Obesity surgery · Aug 1999

    Case Reports

    Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for super/super obesity.

    • N T Nguyen, H S Ho, L S Palmer, and B M Wolfe.
    • The Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, USA. ninh.nguyen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
    • Obes Surg. 1999 Aug 1; 9 (4): 403-6.

    AbstractLaparoscopic gastric bypass has been recently introduced as an alternative method to conventional open gastric bypass. This procedure has been generally limited to patients with a BMI <60 kg/m2 due to the possible technical limitations of the laparoscopic instruments. In this article, we present a patient with super/super obesity (61 kg/m2) who underwent Rouxen-Y gastric bypass using the laparoscopic approach.

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