Preliminary results from digestive adaptation: a new surgical proposal for treating obesity, based on physiology and evolution

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Most bariatric surgical techniques include essentially non-physiological features like narrowing anastomoses or bands, or digestive segment exclusion, especially the duodenum. This potentially causes symptoms or complications. The aim here was to report on the preliminary resu...

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Main Authors: Sérgio Santoro, Manoel Carlos Prieto Velhote, Carlos Eduardo Malzoni, Fábio Quirino Milleo, Sidney Klajner, Fábio Guilherme Campos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802006000400004&lng=en&tlng=en