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Percutaneous Needle Aspiration of a Partially Deflated Intragastric Balloon: a Forgotten Modality? Review of the Literature

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  1. Optimal Clinic, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Jeffrey Brooks

  2. Sheba Hospital, Interventional Radiology Unit, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Uri Rimon & Paul BenSaid

  3. Sheba Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Alon Lang, Moshe Nadler & Simon Bar Meir

  4. Sheba Hospital, Department of Surgery, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Chaya Schwartz

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Dr Jeffrey Brooks is a shareholder and a patent holder at Spatz FGIA Inc and has reported this in his COI form. Dr’s Rimon, BenSaid, Lang, Nadler, Schwartz, and BarMeir have no conflict of interest to report as documented in their individual COI forms.

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Brooks, J., Rimon, U., BenSaid, P. et al. Percutaneous Needle Aspiration of a Partially Deflated Intragastric Balloon: a Forgotten Modality? Review of the Literature. OBES SURG 28, 1781–1784 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-018-3205-0

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