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Small-Bowel Obstruction Secondary to Migration of an Intragastric Balloon

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Hôtel-Dieu de France University Hospital, Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon

    Imad El Kareh & Bassam Abboud

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon

    Imad El Kareh & Bassam Abboud

  3. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Department of Digestive, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Bariatric Surgery, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Pierre and Marie Curie University, 47-83 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France

    Laurent Genser & Jean-Michel Siksik

  4. Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France

    Laurent Genser

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El Kareh, I., Genser, L., Siksik, JM. et al. Small-Bowel Obstruction Secondary to Migration of an Intragastric Balloon. J Gastrointest Surg 20, 1409–1410 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-016-3112-4

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