Bariatric Surgery for Severe Obesity
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Bariatric surgery for severe obesity.
Severe obesity is associated with multiple comorbidities and is refractory to dietary management with or without behavioral or drug therapies. There are a number of surgical procedures for the treatment of morbid obesity, including purely gastric restrictive, a combination of malabsorption and gastric restriction or primary malabsorption. The purely gastric restrictive procedures, including ver...
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عنوان ژورنال: TAJ: Journal of Teachers Association
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2408-8854,1019-8555
DOI: 10.3329/taj.v22i2.37753