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Laparoscopic Gastric Banding Without Visible Scar: a Short Series with Intraumbilical SILS

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Single-incision laparoscopic surgery has been developed with the aims of further reducing the invasiveness of traditional laparoscopy. The technique of lap-band placement from a single intraumbilical incision is described. Three patients underwent a single-incision laparoscopic surgery gastric banding (SILS-GB) for morbid obesity from May to September 2008. All interventions were uneventful and patients were discharged on first postoperative day, after an upper gastrointestinal series. SILS-GB is virtually scarless intervention and may be performed as a day-surgery procedure for the treatment of morbid obesity.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

    Roberto M. Tacchino, Francesco Greco & Daniele Matera

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Correspondence to Francesco Greco.

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Tacchino, R.M., Greco, F. & Matera, D. Laparoscopic Gastric Banding Without Visible Scar: a Short Series with Intraumbilical SILS. OBES SURG 20, 236–239 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-009-9908-5

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