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Bariatric surgery in adolescence. is this the best age to operate?
Obes Surg
December 2003
Department of Surgery, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, USA and University Medical and Dental School.
Background: Bariatric surgery in morbidly obese adolescents is controversial. Many argue that morbidly obese individuals should be of adult age before undergoing bariatric operations, despite the progressive and debilitating course of this increasingly common disease.
Materials And Methods: 19 consecutive adolescent patients, aged 13-17, underwent vertical banded gastroplasty-Roux-en-Y gastric bypass between May 1990 and August 2001.