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Concepts in Surgery of the Stomach and Duodenum

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The most common indications for gastric operation are morbid obesity, neoplasm, gastrostomy tube placement, and ulcer disease. This chapter discusses important concepts relevant to the choice of operation for these common indications and the management of postoperative complications.

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  1. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Penn Gastrointestinal Surgery University City, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Sean P. Harbison

  2. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Penn Medicine, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Daniel T. Dempsey

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Carol E. H. Scott-Conner

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of Colorectal Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center/Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA

    Andreas M. Kaiser

  3. Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA

    Ninh T. Nguyen

  4. Division of Surgical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Umut Sarpel

  5. Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Sonia L. Sugg

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Harbison, S.P., Dempsey, D.T. (2022). Concepts in Surgery of the Stomach and Duodenum. In: Scott-Conner, C.E.H., Kaiser, A.M., Nguyen, N.T., Sarpel, U., Sugg, S.L. (eds) Chassin's Operative Strategy in General Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81415-1_24

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