Computed tomographic evaluation of the excluded stomach in gastric bypass.
Eleven patients who had gastric bypass operations were examined with computed tomography to evaluate the status of the excluded stomach. Three of the patients had dilated excluded stomachs that accounted for the patients' symptomatology. As an upper gastrointestinal series cannot delineate the excluded stomach, computed tomography is the examination of choice for such an evaluation.
D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013270:Stomach / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed