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Laparoscopic versus open gastric bypass
1Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. ninh.nguyen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Seminars in Laparoscopic Surgery
|August 2, 2002
Abstract:
Laparoscopic bypass has become a common approach for the treatment of morbid obesity. This article compares the results of laparoscopic gastric bypass with that of open gastric bypass based on published data from prospective series, comparative studies, and randomized clinical trials.