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01-12-2014 | Letter to the Editor/LED Reply
Response to Letter to the Editor: Single-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (SAGB): Appraisal of Clinical Evidence (OBES SURG DOI 10.1007/s11695-014-1369-9)
Authors:
Yu-Hung Lin, Wei-Jei Lee
Published in:
Obesity Surgery
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Issue 12/2014
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Excerpt
Firstly, we would like to thank Prof. Deitel, Dr. Kular, and Prof. Chevallier for their comments on the controversy on renaming mini-gastric bypass (MGB). From the letter, we could identify several names of this procedure, so it is easy to get confused from the society. The purpose of renaming is to unify the names and make it easier to be identified in scientific publications or communications. For the scientific committee, “single-anastomosis” seems to be more favorable, so it is used for the topic of the upcoming postgraduate course in Montreal. And this might be a chance for the society to raise a discussion about which one of them we are going to use. …