title: Band erosion with gastric cancer.
abstract: Adjustable gastric banding is a well-established procedure for the treatment of morbid obesity. We present a 62-year-old female who experienced the rare complication of intragastric band perforation due to a gastric adenocarcinoma localized at the site of gastric banding, 10 years after insertion of the band.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Thilo.Hackert@med.uni-heidelberg.de
authors.forename: Th
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hackert
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dietz
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tjaden
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sieg
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Buchler
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000601:surgery; D019736:Prostheses and Implants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*