Introduction
Gastric glomus tumors are unusual benign subepithelial mesenchymal neoplasm of modified smooth muscle cells representing a neoplastic counterpart of glomus bodies and they could not be diagnosed preoperatively.
Case Report
A 38 years old woman was admitted to our clinic complaining for morbid obesity. Routine preoperative evaluation such as laboratory analysis, abdominal ultrasonography and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy were made. She underwent classical Laparoscopic Sleeve Ga
Background: The Ontario Bariatric Network services a population of 12.8 million in an area equivalent in size to California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada combined through just 4 bariatric surgery Centers of Excellence (COE). This study investigates whether the COE model impacts complication and readmission rates for patients traveling great distances for bariatric surgery.
Methods: This study identified all patients aged >18 who received bariatric surgery from April 2009 until March 2012. The
Introduction: Robotic technology is increasingly prevalent in bariatric surgery yet there are few published cohort analyses of the robotic sleeve gastrectomy to date. We sought to evaluate the experience of a single high-volume bariatric practice in a teaching hospital in order to accurately characterize the procedure’s outcomes, potential benefits, and its feasibility as a teaching model for surgical residents.
Methods and Procedures: Following IRB approval, all patients who underwent robotic
Introduction: Obesity has been demonstrated to be a risk factor for surgical site infections in certain procedures. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a clean contaminated procedure with wound infection rate of about 1%. Wound infections after bariatric surgery are no longer reimbursed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The use of a specimen retrieval bag in a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy may help prevent wound infections. We performed a retrospective study to determine whether
ntroduction :Internal hernia is one of the serious complications after gastric by pass, it causes recurrent attacks of abdominal pain and if left untreated it can lead to small bowel necrosis snd gangrene. CTScan is the gold standard test for the diagnosis, although a normal study does not exclude the diagnosis. Systematic closure of potential spaces may eliminate completely the occurrence of internal hernia.
Objectives: morbidity and mortality of internal hernia after gastric by pass can re