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Delayed Intrathoracic Gastric Perforation After Obesity Surgery: A Severe Complication

We describe a case of a patient with an intrathoracic gastric perforation, 6 months after she underwent a gastric banding procedure for the treatment of morbid obesity. After an urgent laparotomy during which the stomach was replaced and oversewn, she recovered uneventfully. The possible mechanism o...

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Autores principales: Vogelaar, F. Jeroen, Adhin, Santosh K., Schuttevaer, Herman M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18365293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11695-007-9388-4