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Is the Long-Term Weight Loss Efficacy of Sleeve Gastrectomy Overestimated or Not?

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    Charalampos Lampropoulos

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    Dimitrios Kehagias

  3. Division of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, 26504, Rio, Greece

    Ioannis Kehagias

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Lampropoulos, C., Kehagias, D. & Kehagias, I. Is the Long-Term Weight Loss Efficacy of Sleeve Gastrectomy Overestimated or Not?. OBES SURG 33, 3692–3693 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-023-06839-1

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