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Hand-assisted laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty

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Laparoscopic approaches to surgery for morbid obesity offer to reduce the morbidity associated with conventional weight reduction surgery. This paper describes a hand-assisted laparoscopic technique for vertical banded gastroplasty, a method which shortens and simplifies the laparoscopic approach to this established open surgical procedure.

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  1. The Royal Adelaide Centre for Endoscopic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Level 6, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia, Austria

    D. I. Watson & P. A. Game

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Received: 4 March 1997/Accepted: 25 March 1997

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Watson, D., Game, P. Hand-assisted laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty. Surg Endosc 11, 1218–1220 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004649900574

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