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Comment
. 2015 Apr;261(4):e118.
doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182a7187c.

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in 108 obese children and adolescents ages 5 to 21 years by Alqahtani AR, Antonisamy B, Alamri H, Elahmedi M, Zimmerman VA

Ann O Scheimann  1 , Evan E Nadler, Daniel J Driscoll, Merlin G Butler, Jennifer L Miller, Tania P Markovic, Anthony P Goldstone
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Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in 108 obese children and adolescents ages 5 to 21 years by Alqahtani AR, Antonisamy B, Alamri H, Elahmedi M, Zimmerman VA

Ann O Scheimann et al. Ann Surg. 2015 Apr.
No abstract available

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Disclosure: There are no funding received for this letter. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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