Obesity surgery
By: Harvey J. Sugerman, guest editor.
Contributors: Sugerman, Harvey J.
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 81, no. 5
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1198
Subjects: Obesity -- surgery
Notes: "October 2001."

Series title on spine: Surgical clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Psychosocial aspects of obesity and obesity surgery / Thomas A. Wadden ... [et al.]; title: Medical management of obesity / Samuel Klein; title: Morbidity of severe obesity / John G. Kral; title: Effects of increased intra-abdominal pressure in severe obesity / Harvey J. Sugerman; title: Gastric bypass / Robert E. Brolin; title: Vertical banded gastroplasty / Cornelius Doherty; title: Malabsorptive obesity surgery / Picard Marceau ... [et al.]; title: Laparascopic adjustable silicone gastric banding / Eric J. DeMaria; title: Laparoscopic surgery for morbid obesity / Philip R. Schauer and Sayeed Ikramuddin; title: Complications of surgery for obesity / T. Karl Byrne.