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- Title
The Gastric Migration Crisis in Obesity Surgery.
- Authors
Runkel, Norbert
- Abstract
The article focuses on the results from the intra-thoracic migration of the stomach (ITM) for treating postoperative hiatal hernias after the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). It discusses the underreporting of ITM, as (3D)-computed tomography (CT) for detection of staple line above diaphragm, unknown rate of ITM with patients being free of reflux.
- Subjects
GASTRIC bypass; BARIATRIC surgery; HIATAL hernia; BARRETT'S esophagus; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC junction
- Publication
Obesity Surgery, 2019, Vol 29, Issue 7, p2301
- ISSN
0960-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11695-019-03872-x