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Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

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The prevalence of obesity has risen rapidly in the last decades. The laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass has demonstrated to be a safe and effective procedure with good long-term outcomes in morbidly obese patients.

In this chapter we provide a detailed step-by-step description of the procedure, and we discuss current technical controversies.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Hospital Alemán of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Francisco Laxague & Rudolf Buxhoeveden

  2. Department of Surgery, Hospital Alemán of Buenos Aires, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Francisco Schlottmann

  3. Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Francisco Schlottmann

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  1. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Marco G. Patti

  2. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Marco Di Corpo

  3. University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Francisco Schlottmann

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Laxague, F., Schlottmann, F., Buxhoeveden, R. (2020). Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. In: Patti, M., Di Corpo, M., Schlottmann, F. (eds) Foregut Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27592-1_26

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