gastrectomy
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gastrectomies
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She said she would raise concerns about Miss Butler's sleeve gastrectomy with regulators in Turkey.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025
Bariatric and metabolic surgery can be performed with a sleeve gastrectomy, which reduces stomach size and decreases hunger, and a gastric bypass, which creates a small pouch to restrict food intake.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Wallace, the Brooklyn legal assistant, was billed $60,500 for her lap sleeve gastrectomy, though how much her insurance actually paid remains to be hashed out in court.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
The complaint states that the child will develop cancer without a preventive gastrectomy, or stomach removal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Will someone ever explain to Carson what a gastrectomy is?
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2016
Also, a majority of the stomach that secretes ghrelin, the hunger hormone, is removed in sleeve gastrectomies.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
It is clear that obesity, and the stigma associated with it, can’t be solved by hundreds of millions of gastric bypasses and sleeve gastrectomies.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2016
Though Dr. Wangensteen pioneered in gastrectomies, did hundreds in 35 years, he was never fully satisfied with the results.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a year, Wangensteen and his assistants have done no gastrectomies on patients with severe but uncomplicated duodenal ulcers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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