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Background Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) has proven to be a safe and effective surgical treatment for morbid obesity. It can be a simple, fast, reversible, anatomy-preserving procedure. Despite these advantages, its long-term efficacy came into question by the occurrence of complications such as intragastric band migration. Consistent information regarding this complication is still...
Aim Retrospective multicenter analysis of the results of two different approaches for band positioning: perigastric and pars flaccida. Methods Data were collected from the database of the Italian Group for LapBand® (GILB). Patients operated from January 2001 to December 2004 were selected according to criteria of case–control studies to compare two different band positioning techniques: perigastric...
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