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This chapter discusses the complex decision-making involved in performing a bariatric procedure on the individual patient. It provides an overview of the benefits and pitfalls of the most commonly performed bariatric surgeries and examines how factors related to the individual patient as well as surgical and regulatory factors affect the selection of the surgery.
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Jennings, N.A., Small, P.K. (2016). Procedure Selection in Bariatric Surgery. In: Agrawal, S. (eds) Obesity, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04343-2_9
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