1 Introduction to Noninterpretive Skills Quality: It’s All about Quality Improvement The NIS primarily concerns itself with core quality and safety. Quality control (QC), quality assurance (QA), and quality improvement…
Fig. 4.1 A 5 cm layer of fat does not prevent diagnosis of 12 mm CBD dilatation due to an obstructing 10 mm calculus with posterior acoustic shadowing (white arrow)….
Fig. 5.1 shows gastric pouch (white arrow) and short proximal, blind-ending afferent jejunal limb (black arrow) The stomach is divided and there is a band of staples which occludes the…
Mortality at less than 30 days Mortality at more than 30 days Reoperation rate Complications Adjustable gastric banding 0.07% (0.02–0.12) 0.21% (0.08–0.37) 7.01% (3.99–11.24) 7.80% (3.90–13.00) Sleeve gastrectomy 0.29%…
, Francesca Abbatini1 and Gianfranco Silecchia1 (1) General and Bariatric Surgery Unit, Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies-Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy Laparoscopic adjustable silicone gastric banding (LAGB ) was the first…
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018Andrea Laghi and Marco Rengo (eds.)Imaging in Bariatric Surgeryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49299-5_3 3. The Role of Imaging Before and After Surgery Marco Rengo1 , Simona Picchia1 and Andrea Laghi1 (1) Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences,…
Classification Body mass index category Underweight <18.5 Normal weight 18.5–24.9 Overweight 25.0–29.9 Obese >30.0 Class I 30.0–34.9 Class II 35.0–39.9 Class III >40.0 These BMI cut points in adults are…
7 Lung and Central Airway Malignancies Sarah Baker and Alysa Fairchild INTRODUCTION Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, with 1.8 million patients diagnosed in 2012.1 75%…
3 Bone Metastases Pei Shuen Lim and Peter J. Hoskin INTRODUCTION Approximately 50% of the workload in a radiation therapy (RT) department is comprised of palliative work, of which the…
5 Brain Metastases Mohammad Hasan and May N. Tsao INTRODUCTION Demographics Metastatic disease to the brain is the most common intracranial tumor.1 The incidence of brain metastases is at least…
