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Pandora’s Box: Unpredictable Evolution of a 20-Year History of a Bariatric Patient—Report of Small Bowel Migrated Gastric Band after Redo Banded Gastric Bypass

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  1. Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Division of General Surgery & Bariatric Center of Excellence-IFSO EC, University La Sapienza of Rome, Via F. Faggiana, 1668, Latina, Italy

    Cristian Boru & Gianfranco Silecchia

  2. Experimental Medicine and Surgery Department, General Surgery and Transplant Unit, Fondazione PTV, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

    Tommaso Maria Manzia

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Boru, C., Manzia, T.M. & Silecchia, G. Pandora’s Box: Unpredictable Evolution of a 20-Year History of a Bariatric Patient—Report of Small Bowel Migrated Gastric Band after Redo Banded Gastric Bypass. OBES SURG 28, 1422–1424 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-018-3159-2

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