A Pancreatic Fistula after the Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

Gökhan Selçuk Özbalcı; Ayfer Kamalı Polat; İsmail Alper Tarım; Murat Derebey; Mehmet Selim Nural; Volkan Tümentemur; Ufuk Karabacak

doi:10.1155/2015/910583

Case Reports in Surgery (Jan 2015)

A Pancreatic Fistula after the Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

Gökhan Selçuk Özbalcı,
Ayfer Kamalı Polat,
İsmail Alper Tarım,
Murat Derebey,
Mehmet Selim Nural,
Volkan Tümentemur,
Ufuk Karabacak

Affiliations

Gökhan Selçuk Özbalcı: Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey
Ayfer Kamalı Polat: Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey
İsmail Alper Tarım: Department of General Surgery, Varto State Hospital, 49100 Muş, Turkey
Murat Derebey: Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey
Mehmet Selim Nural: Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey
Volkan Tümentemur: Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey
Ufuk Karabacak: Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/910583
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2015

Abstract

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Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is a popular surgical weight-loss procedure in the treatment of morbid obesity. There are some complications regarding this procedure in the literature. This report presents a pancreatic fistula (PF) case, which has not been previously seen.

Published in Case Reports in Surgery

ISSN: 2090-6900 (Print); 2090-6919 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Surgery
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/4629

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