Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery for morbid obesity: imaging of normal anatomic features and postoperative gastrointestinal complications.

Blachar, Arye; Blank, Annat; Gavert, Nancy; Metzer, Ur; Fluser, Gideon; Abu-Abeid, Subhi · AJR Am J Roentgenol · 2007

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Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to describe the normal anatomic findings after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery and the imaging findings of postoperative gastrointestinal complications. With the increasing prevalence of morbid obesity, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery has evolved to be a leading surgical technique. Radiologists need to be familiar with the normal anatomic findings after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery and with the imaging findings of postoperative complications.

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