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Zero In On Bypass Surgery Details
Published on Wed Apr 19, 2017
Question: The surgeon performed an open gastric bypass procedure in which he described partitioning the stomach with staples. The note also describes cutting the small bowel and anastomosing the distal end of the intestine to the proximal stomach pouch, creating a 140 cm limb. The note further describes anastomosing the “unused” cut end of the small intestine to a more distal [...]