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Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for super/super obesity
N T Nguyen1, H S Ho, L S Palmer
1The Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, USA. ninh.nguyen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Obesity Surgery
|September 14, 1999
Abstract:
Laparoscopic 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.