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The advent of laparoscopy in the early 1990s has changed the scenario of bariatric surgery by encouraging the spread of certain procedures based on greater acceptance (compliance) of the intervention in a lot of obese patients. Bariatric surgery, also for the considerable extension of this global disease (globesity), is the branch of surgery in greater and more rapid expansion.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, “San Camillo” Hospital, Trento, Italy

    Jacopo Andreuccetti, Lidija Ristovich, Michele Lever & Giusto Pignata

  2. Department of General Surgery, Villa Igea Clinic, Acqui Terme, Italy

    Jacopo Andreuccetti, Lidija Ristovich, Michele Lever & Giusto Pignata

  3. Department of General Surgery, Villa Igea Clinic, Acqui Terme, Alessandria, Italy

    Fabrizio Lazzara

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  1. General and Minimally Invasive Surgery, San Camillo Hospital, Trento, Italy

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Andreuccetti, J., Lazzara, F., Ristovich, L., Lever, M., Pignata, G. (2016). Bariatric Surgery. In: Pignata, G., Bracale, U., Lazzara, F. (eds) Laparoscopic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24427-3_7

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