Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery

Surg Obes Relat Dis · ISSN (print) 1550-7289 · 1 paper in corpus

other 2008

Incidental pathologic findings in open resectional gastric bypass specimens with routine cholecystectomy and appendectomy

doi:10.1016/j.soard.2008.01.015 ·PMID:18586563

BACKGROUND: Morbid obesity has become a public health epidemic in the United States. With this epidemic, the demand for surgical intervention has led to rapid growth in the field of bariatric surgery. Although various procedures exist, one …