Experience with Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbid Versus Super Morbid Obesity

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Experience with Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbid Versus Super Morbid Obesity Nobumi Tagaya & Kazunori Kasama & Rie Kikkawa & Eiji Kanahira & Akiko Umezawa & Takashi Oshiro & Yuka Negishi & Yoshimochi Kurokawa & Tetsuya Nakazato & Keiichi Kubota

Received: 27 July 2008 / Accepted: 19 November 2008 / Published online: 9 December 2008 # Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2008

Abstract Background We evaluated the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) for super morbid obesity in patients with an initial body mass index (BMI) of