Mohammed A. Bawahab, MD, FRCS (Canada), FASMBS Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Khalid, University, Abha, Saudi Arabia. ABSTRACT Laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB) is a well-established bariatric surgical procedure. LAGB surgery is associated long term with a significant chance for reoperation within 10 years of band placement; 2 causes of reoperation are band migration and […]
Florian Primavesi, MD, Tarkan Ja ̈ger, MD, Michael Baschata, MD, Dietmar Ofner, MD, MAS, MSc, FACSDepartment of Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Surgery for morbid obesity is constantly gaining popularity around the world, and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding is among the most accepted standard procedures. Lately, growing evidence for long-term
Yasunori Yoshimoto, MD, PhD, Akira Tanaka, MD, PhD, Toshihiro Abe, MD, PhD, Takahisa Fujikawa, MD, PhD, Norihiro Shimoike, MD, Seiichiro Tada, MD, Hisatsugu Maekawa, MD, Mitsuo Nishiyama, MD Kokura Memorial Hospital, Department of Surgery, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan (all authors). ABSTRACT A 65-year-old woman underwent laparoscopic-assisted sigmoidectomy for management of sigmoid colon cancer. Her postoperative recovery
