title: Hand-assisted laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty. Initial report.
abstract: Laparoscopic approaches to surgery for morbid obesity offer to reduce the morbidity associated with conventional weight reduction surgery. This paper describes a hand-assisted laparoscopic technique for vertical banded gastroplasty, a method which shortens and simplifies the laparoscopic approach to this established open surgical procedure.
authors.affiliation: The Royal Adelaide Centre for Endoscopic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Level 6, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia.
authors.forename: D I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Game
mesh_terms: D000009:Abdominal Muscles / Q000601:surgery; D004032:Diet; D004210:Dissection / Q000379:methods; D004564:Electrocoagulation / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015391:Gastroplasty / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020706:Laparoscopes; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000601:surgery; D009852:Omentum / Q000601:surgery; D013270:Stomach / Q000601:surgery; D013526:Surgical Mesh; D013528:Surgical Staplers; D015431:Weight Loss