LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY FOR MORBID OBESITY

Who Would Have Thought It? An Operation Proves to Be the Most Effective Therapy for Adult-Onset Diabetes Mellitus

1995 • 2,296 citations

Outcomes After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity

2000 • 1,341 citations

Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass, Roux en-Y - 500 Patients: Technique and Results, with 3-60 month follow-up

2000 • 871 citations

Vertical Banded Gastroplasty for Obesity

1982 • 709 citations

Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch

1998 • 643 citations

Complications of the Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: 1,040 Patients - What Have We Learned?

2000 • 600 citations

Early Results of Laparoscopic Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch: A Case Series of 40 Consecutive Patients

2000 • 590 citations

A Randomized Prospective Trial of Gastric Bypass Versus Vertical Banded Gastroplasty for Morbid Obesity and their Effects on Sweets Versus Non-Sweets Eaters

1987 • 548 citations

Greater risk of incisional hernia with morbidly obese than steroid-dependent patients and low recurrence with prefascial polypropylene mesh

1996 • 512 citations

Long-limb Gastric Bypass in the Superobese

1992 • 432 citations

Biliopancreatic diversion for obesity at eighteen years

1996 • 405 citations

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity

2000 • 378 citations

Surgical Rates and Operative Mortality for Open and Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Maryland

1994 • 365 citations

Gastric Bypass Operation for Obesity

1998 • 360 citations

Weight loss with vertical banded gastroplasty and Roux-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity with selective versus random assignment

1989 • 348 citations

Prospective study of a laparoscopically placed, adjustable gastric band in the treatment of morbid obesity

1999 • 327 citations

Results of the surgical treatment of obesity

1993 • 319 citations

Gastric Surgery for Morbid Obesity

1990 • 314 citations

Adhesion formation after laparoscopic surgery in tubal pregnancy: a randomized trial versus laparotomy

1991 • 313 citations

Late Outcome of Isolated Gastric Bypass

2000 • 310 citations

The weight reduction operation of choice: Vertical banded gastroplasty or gastric bypass?

1996 • 299 citations

Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding

1998 • 280 citations

Gastric Bypass

1969 • 268 citations

The Impact of Obesity on Surgical Outcomes: A Review

1997 • 267 citations

Late results of vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid and super obesity.

1990 • 249 citations

A Review of Seven Years' Experience with Silicone Gastric Banding

1991 • 236 citations

Ten and more years after vertical banded gastroplasty as primary operation for morbid obesity

2000 • 227 citations

Increased incidence of nosocomial infections in obese surgical patients.

1995 • 208 citations

Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding: Lessons from the First 500 Patients in a Single Institution

1999 • 196 citations

Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass, Roux en-Y: Technique and Results in 75 Patients With 3-30 Months Follow-up

1996 • 190 citations

Evaluation of Health Status and Quality of Life after Bariatric Surgery: Comparison of Standard Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, Vertical Banded Gastroplasty and Laparoscopic Adjustable Silicone Gastric Banding

2000 • 186 citations

Laparoscopic Adjustable Silicone Gastric Banding (Lap-Band®): How To Avoid Comlications

1997 • 159 citations

Laparoscopic gastric banding for morbid obesity

1999 • 152 citations

A Decade of Change in Obesity Surgery

1997 • 150 citations

Pulmonary Function After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

1994 • 145 citations

Preservation of immune response after laparoscopy

1994 • 144 citations

Comparison of laparoscopic cholecystectomy with open cholecystectomy in a single center

1993 • 139 citations

The surgical treatment of morbid obesity

1998 • 137 citations

Complications Following Surgery for Duodenal Ulcer in Obese Patients

1972 • 135 citations

Postoperative venous thrombosis

1981 • 134 citations

Laparoscopic gastric bypass Another option in bariatric surgery

1996 • 126 citations

Treatment of morbid obesity with laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding affects esophageal motility

2000 • 124 citations

Gastric bypass for morbid obesity

1981 • 120 citations

Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation

1988 • 116 citations

Comparative Effectiveness of Gastric Bypass and Gastroplasty

1982 • 109 citations

Influence of obesity on the early and long term results of surgery for coronary artery disease

1991 • 91 citations

The Incidence of Clinical Postoperative Thrombosis After Gastric Surgery for Obesity During 16 Years

1997 • 88 citations

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in the Obese Patient

1992 • 78 citations

The laparoscopic approach reduces the endocrine response to elective cholecystectomy.

1995 • 77 citations

Laparoscopic Gastric Banding for Morbid Obesity

1999 • 77 citations

Laparoscopic gastric reduction surgery

1999 • 63 citations

LAPAROSCOPIC ADJUSTABLE SILICONE GASTRIC BANDING

2001 • 61 citations

The evolution of postoperative ileus after laparoscopic cholecystectomy

1993 • 59 citations

Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

1991 • 56 citations

Operative treatment of adenocarcinoma of the endometrium in obese women

1965 • 49 citations

Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery (HALS): A Useful Technique for Complex Laparoscopic Abdominal Procedures

1998 • 48 citations

Other Laparoscopic Bariatric Procedures

1998 • 47 citations

Laparoscopically assisted gastric surgery using Dexterity Pneumo Sleeve

1997 • 42 citations

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the obese patient

1992 • 39 citations

Three-Year Results of Laparoscopic Vertical Banded Gastroplasty

1999 • 34 citations

Hand-assisted laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty

1997 • 32 citations

Structure-Activity Studies of the C-Terminal Region of the Endothelins and the Sarafotoxins

1991 • 30 citations

Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Aspects of Surgical Technique and Early Results

2000 • 29 citations

Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

1991 • 27 citations

Ponderal index as a predictor of postoperative complications.

1990 • 23 citations

Preoperative pulmonary evaluation

1988 • 22 citations

Laparoscopic-Assisted Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

1999 • 21 citations

Hand-assisted laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty

2000 • 17 citations

Ponderal index as a predictor of postoperative complications.

1990 • 9 citations

MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY: PRINCIPLES AND OUTCOMES.

1999 • 4 citations

Laparoscopic Surgery for Severe Obesity

2011 • 4 citations

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding

1999 • 2 citations

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: Initial results

1998 • 1 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations