Gastric stapling for morbid obesity
1981
Summary Medical therapies for morbid obesity offer very little hope for controlling excess body fat and its sequelae. Of the surgical therapies available, gastric stapling has emerged as a safe, effective adjunctive measure in a broad-based program to rehabilitate obese patients. Seventy-seven patients lost an average 20 percent of their preoperative weight.
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