Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery for morbid obesity: imaging of normal anatomic features and postoperative gastrointestinal complications.

Author: Blachar A, Blank A, Gavert N, Metzer U, Fluser G, Abu-Abeid S

Author affiliation: Department of Radiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman St., Tel Aviv 64239, Israel. ablachar@tasmc.health.gov.il

Publication date & source: 2007.02, AJR Am J Roentgenol., 188(2):472-9.

Publication type: Review

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this essay is to describe the normal anatomic findings after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery and the imaging findings of postoperative gastrointestinal complications. CONCLUSION: With the increasing prevalence of morbid obesity, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery has evolved to be a leading surgical technique. Radiologists need to be familiar with the normal anatomic findings after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery and with the imaging findings of postoperative complications.