1. Manuscript Preparation

   • Editorial Office

   OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 3 - 4

2. Editor's Note

   • M Deitel

   OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 5 - 5

3. Obituary

   • M Deitel

   OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 5 - 5

4. Editorial

   • George S M Cowan Jr

   OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 6 - 6

5. Perioperative Coagulation Changes with Gastric Bypass: association with venous thrombosis?

   • John J Gleysteen
   • Dennis F Bandyk
   • David C Naftel

   OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 7 - 14

6. Effect of Surgically Induced Weight Loss on Asthma in the Morbidly Obese

   • Alex M C Macgregor
   • Robert A Greenberg

   OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 15 - 21

7. The Effect of Practical Dietary Counselling on Food Variety and Regurgitation Frequency after Gastroplasty for Obesity

   • Merril Bohn
   • Margaret Way
   • Andrew Jamieson

   OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 23 - 28

8. Biliopancreatic Diversion with a New Type of Gastrectomy

   • Picard Marceau
   • Simon Biron
   • Serge Simard

   OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 29 - 35

9. Invited Commentary

   • Nicola Scopinaro

   OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 36 - 36

10. Minimum Excess Weight Required for Obesity Surgery: how far can we go?

    • Luc Lemmens

    OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 37 - 39

11. Distal Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Conversion Operation for Failed Vertical Banded Gastroplasty

    • Emil Kfoury
    • Apparao Vanguri

    OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 41 - 43

12. Salvage of Failed Horizontal Gastroplasty by the Addition of a Distal Gastric Bypass

    • Peter A Salmon

    OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 45 - 51

13. Adjustable Silicone Gastric Banding (ASGB): the Italian experience

    • Franco Favretti
    • Giuliano Enzi
    • Mario Lise

    OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 53 - 56

14. Pouch Enlargement: myth or reality? Impressions from Serial Upper Gastrointestinal Series in Silicone Gastric Banding Patients

    • Lubomyr I Kuzmak
    • Edward Burak

    OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 57 - 62

15. Laparoscopic Gastric Banding: a preliminary report

    • Russell Broadbent
    • Michael Tracey
    • Phillip Harrington

    OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 63 - 67

16. Complications of Vertical Banded Gastroplasty and its Modified Operative Mode, K-Gastroplasty: a preliminary report

    • Isao Kawamura
    • Yukimasa Miyazawa
    • Kaichi Isono

    OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 69 - 74

17. Resolution of Diabetes Following Vertical Gastroplasty in Morbidly Obese Patients

    • Hilary J Neve
    • Clare T Soulsby
    • T V Taylor

    OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 75 - 78

18. Severe Compulsive Overeating: how to obtain a more accurate history through non-shaming, non-blaming interview techniques

    • Virginia R Wittig
    • John H Wittig

    OriginalPaper 01 February 1993 Pages: 79 - 84

19. Abstracts of the Sixth International Symposium on Obesity Surgery and Second Meeting of the Italian Group for Obesity Surgery (GICO)

    • Editorial Office

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