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    Routine preoperative ultrasonography and selective cholecystectomy in laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.: Why not?
    (2008) Escalona, Alex; Boza, Camilo; Munoz, Rodrigo; Perez, Gustavo; Rayo, Sabina; Crovari, Fernando; Ibanez, Luis; Guzman, Sergio
    Background Preoperative evaluation and treatment of biliary lithiasis in morbid obese patients who are candidates to bariatric surgery raise a series of questions which to date has no clear consensus. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of routine preoperative abdominal ultrasonography and selective cholecystectomy comparing patients who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) with and without simultaneous cholecystectomy.