Clinical Study
Fourteen-Year Long-Term Results after Gastric Banding
Table 3
Reasons for band removal.
| Patients | | 24 | Overall removal rate | | 12.0 | Discomfort | | 5 | Excellent excessive weight loss | | 1 | Migration | | 11 | Slippage | | 2 | During cholecystectomy (at out-of-town hospitals) | | 2 | Peritonitis | | 1 | Stomach wall necrosis | | 1 | Epiphrenic esophageal diverticula | | 1 |
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