title: Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery for morbid obesity: imaging of normal anatomic features and postoperative gastrointestinal complications.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this essay is to describe the normal anatomic findings after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery and the imaging findings of postoperative gastrointestinal complications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With the increasing prevalence of morbid obesity, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery has evolved to be a leading surgical technique. Radiologists need to be familiar with the normal anatomic findings after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery and with the imaging findings of postoperative complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman St., Tel Aviv 64239, Israel. ablachar@tasmc.health.gov.il
authors.forename: Arye
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blachar
authors.forename: Annat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blank
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gavert
authors.forename: Ur
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Metzer
authors.forename: Gideon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fluser
authors.forename: Subhi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abu-Abeid
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D050110:Bariatric Surgery / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome