Leak after vertical banded gastroplasty.
We have reported the case of a morbidly obese patient who became gravely ill during the first day after vertical banded gastroplasty. The diagnosis of a leak from the stomach was established by a Gastrografin swallow, and ten additional operations were done before the patient was discharged on the 135th postoperative day.
Buckwalter
J A
JA
Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599.
Herbst
C A
CA
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