title: TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF LAPAROSCOPIC SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The vertical gastrectomy indications for surgical treatment of morbid obesity have increased worldwide. Despite this increase, many aspects of surgical technique still remains in controversy.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To contribute presenting surgical details in order to better realize the vertical gastrectomy technique in bariatric surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  Technical systematization, patient preparation, positioning of the trocars, operative technique and postoperative care are presented in details.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During 12 months were enrolled 120 patients undergoing GV according to the technique described herein. The results are published in another ABCD article (ABCD 2015;28(Supl.1):61-64) in this same volume and number.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The surgical technique proposed here presented itself viable and facilitating the surgeon's work on difficult points of the vertical gastrectomy.
authors.affiliation: Gastro-Obese-Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Almino Cardoso
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Ramos
authors.affiliation: Gastro-Obese-Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Eduardo Lemos de Souza
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Bastos
authors.affiliation: Gastro-Obese-Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Manoela Galvão
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Ramos
authors.affiliation: Gastro-Obese-Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Nestor Tadashi Suguitani
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Bertin
authors.affiliation: Gastro-Obese-Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thales Delmondes
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Galvão
authors.affiliation: Gastro-Obese-Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Raphael Torres Figueiredo
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: de Lucena
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Josemberg Marins
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Campos
mesh_terms: D015391:Gastroplasty / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000601:surgery*