Bariatric surgery
By: guest editor, Edward H. Livingston, consulting editor, Ronald F. Martin.
Contributors: Livingston, Edward H.; Martin, Ronald F.
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 85, no. 4
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 874
Subjects: Obesity -- Surgery; Morbid obesity -- Surgery.
Notes: "August 2005."

Series title on spine: Surgical clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trends in insurance coverage for bariatric surgery and the impact of evidence-based reviews / Bassem Y. Safadi; title: Health ramifications of the obesity epidemic / Zhaoping Li, Susan Bowerman, and David Heber; title: Dietary and medical therapy of obesity / Phyllis Stumbo, Donna Hemingway, and William G. Haynes; title: Patient selection and the physiology of gastrointestinal antiobesity operations / Erik Näslund and John G. Kral; title: Psychologic issues in bariatric surgery; title: the surgeon's perspective / Nancy Puzziferri; title: Quality assurance in bariatric surgery / Stewart E. Rendon and Walter J. Pories; title: Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding: evolving clinical experience / Eric J. DeMaria and Mohammad K. Jamal; title: Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding: an attractive opdion / David A. Provost; title: Long limb Roux en Y gastric bypass revisited / Robert E. Brolin; title: The duodenal switch operation for morbid obesity / Gary J. Anthone; title: Bariatric surgical outcomes / Mohamed R. Ali ... [et al.]; title: Complications of bariatric surgery / Edward H. Livingston.