Surgery
Volume 131, Issue 6 , Pages 625-629 , June 2002

Lap-band failures: Conversion to gastric bypass and their preliminary outcomes

,Accepted 15 March 2002.

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☆ Supported in part by a grant from BioEnterics Corp.

☆☆ Reprint requests: Eric J. DeMaria, MD, Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Surgery, PO Box 980519, Richmond, VA 23298.

PII: S0039-6060(02)00005-3

doi: 10.1067/msy.2002.124879

Surgery
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