Bariatric surgery in craniopharyngioma

Weismann and colleagues retrospectively analysed the effectiveness of different kinds of bariatric surgery in patients with craniopharyngioma. They found that no significant body weight loss resulted from laproscopic gastric banding or laproscopic sleeve gastrectomy in young adults with craniopharyngioma-associated obesity. Read the full article in Weismann et al. (2013) Clinical Endocrinology 78 385?390 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2012.04409.x
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