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Nowadays, obesity is frequently an indication for implantation of an adjustable stomach or gastric band. Among the side effects, in addition to band erosion and port chamber complications, pouch dilation in the sense of increasing enlargement of the forestomach and resulting insufficiency of initial surgical measures consistently occurs. Implantation of a soft basket band will prevent this. The objective of this study was to investigate the practical feasibility of the soft basket band.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of General Surgery, Surgical Research, University Hospital, Waldeyer Str. 1, 48149 Muenster (Westf.), Germany. spiegeh@uni-muenster.de
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