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Patients undergoing weight loss surgery may have an increased incidence of subsequent gallbladder disease. Management options include treatment of symptomatic disease only, preoperative ultrasonography and concurrent cholecystectomy in presence of stones, routine concurrent cholecystectomy, and choleretic therapy postoperatively. Here we report our approach to patients undergoing laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) and subsequent outcomes.
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