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[Surgery for obesity: a current trend or a specialty to be taken seriously?]
A M Wolf1, U Nellessen, B Kortner
1Klinik für Allgemeinchirurgie, Evangelisches und Johanniter Klinikum Duisburg/Dinslaken/Oberhausen GGMBH, Evangelisches Krankenhaus.
Langenbecks Archiv Fur Chirurgie. Supplement. Kongressband. Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Chirurgie. Kongress
|February 5, 1999
Abstract:
We performed gastric restriction operations in our hospital on 320 patients. 55% of them lost 50% of their excess weight within 7 months. The success of this kind of operation depends on a comprehensive therapeutic concept in addition to the surgical treatment.