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Imaging of morbid obesity procedures and their complications.

Trenkner SW

Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA, trenkner.stephen@mayo.edu.

Surgery for morbid obesity has become commonplace in the United States. Any radiologist who reads abdominal films, body CT, or does gastrointestinal fluoroscopy should be familiar with the surgical procedures and their imaging. Included in this update will be discussions of the vertical banded gastroplasty, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, and biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch.

Published 26 March 2008 in Abdom Imaging.
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