OBES SURG DOI 10.1007/s11695-014-1454-0
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A Useful Tip for Resected Stomach After Sleeve Gastrectomy Radwan Kassir & Tark Debs & Olivier Tiffet & Ali Fardoun & Imed Ben Amor & Jean Gugenheim
# Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Introduction Sleeve gastrectomy is a standardized procedure [1]. The extracted stomach is not part of a consensus. Sometimes, the stomach is extracted from the abdomen with difficulty and in several pieces. We describe a trick that we do with the resected stomach.
Image (Fig. 1)
resected stomach and we leave it in the patient’s medical record. The four key components of obesity management are as follows: surgery, nutrition, physical activity, and psychological support [2]. Second, the act of inflating the stomach could highlight a potential defect of the stapling line that could lead later on to a gastric fistula, and might call for a “second look” at the gastric pouch to check for any defect symmetrical to that of the specimen. Third, there could be some sort of volumetric stomach removed. A removed gastric volume of
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A Useful Tip for Resected Stomach After Sleeve Gastrectomy Radwan Kassir & Tark Debs & Olivier Tiffet & Ali Fardoun & Imed Ben Amor & Jean Gugenheim
# Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Introduction Sleeve gastrectomy is a standardized procedure [1]. The extracted stomach is not part of a consensus. Sometimes, the stomach is extracted from the abdomen with difficulty and in several pieces. We describe a trick that we do with the resected stomach.
Image (Fig. 1)
resected stomach and we leave it in the patient’s medical record. The four key components of obesity management are as follows: surgery, nutrition, physical activity, and psychological support [2]. Second, the act of inflating the stomach could highlight a potential defect of the stapling line that could lead later on to a gastric fistula, and might call for a “second look” at the gastric pouch to check for any defect symmetrical to that of the specimen. Third, there could be some sort of volumetric stomach removed. A removed gastric volume of
