Would you unblind the patient? A case of incidental T1 N0 R0 GIST in a randomized controlled trial of sleeve gastrectomy versus Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity

Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2016 Nov;12(9):e83-e85. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2016.08.496. Epub 2016 Aug 31.

Authors

Felix Nickel¹, Pascal Probst¹, Lars Fischer²

Affiliations

¹ Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
² Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: Lars.fischer@med.uni-heidelberg.de.

PMID: 27692910
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2016.08.496

No abstract available

Keywords: Bariatric surgery; Blinding; Gastric bypass; Randomized trials; Sleeve gastrectomy.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Gastrectomy / methods*
Gastric Bypass / methods*
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / diagnosis*
Humans
Incidental Findings
Laparoscopy / methods*
Male
Middle Aged
Obesity, Morbid / surgery
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic