Initially sleeve gastrectomy (SG) was performed as an open procedure in 1988, known as Hess and Marceau's technique, which is actually the first stage of the bilio-pancreatic diversion-duodenal switch (BPD-DS). It was ...

ABSTRACT Objectives: Obesity has become one of the most serious and ever increasing health problems of our times. Diet, exercise and medical treatment have proven to be insufficient. Operations such as laparoscopic ...