Treatment of the Morbidly Obese Patient with Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding

Schlumpf R,Lang T,Schöb O,Röthlin M,Georg Kacl,Andreas Zollinger,Ralph A. Schmid,Barbara Decurtins,Renward S. Hauser

Treatment of the Morbidly Obese Patient with Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding

1997

Schlumpf R
Lang T
Schöb O
Röthlin M
Georg Kacl
Andreas Zollinger
Ralph A. Schmid
Barbara Decurtins
Renward S. Hauser

Laparoscopic gastric banding is a recently introduced operation for the treatment of morbid obesity. Its main advantages are minimal invasiveness of the operative procedure, postoperative adjustabilit

Keywords:

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding
Obesity
Body mass index
General surgery
Surgery
Body weight
Weight loss
Medicine
gastric banding
morbidly obese
morbid obesity

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