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Primary experience of bariatric surgery in a newly established private obesity center

Haider Al-Shurafa, Ahmed H. Elzaafarany, Ali Albenmousa and Mona G. Balata
Saudi Medical Journal October 2016, 37 (10) 1089-1095; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.14043
Haider Al-Shurafa
From the Departments of Surgery (Al-Shurafa), Medicine (Albenmousa, Balata), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, General Surgery Department (Hassan), Riyadh National Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed H. Elzaafarany
From the Departments of Surgery (Al-Shurafa), Medicine (Albenmousa, Balata), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, General Surgery Department (Hassan), Riyadh National Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ali Albenmousa
From the Departments of Surgery (Al-Shurafa), Medicine (Albenmousa, Balata), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, General Surgery Department (Hassan), Riyadh National Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mona G. Balata
From the Departments of Surgery (Al-Shurafa), Medicine (Albenmousa, Balata), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, General Surgery Department (Hassan), Riyadh National Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 37 no. 10 1089-1095
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.14043
PubMed 
27652359

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 2, 2016
  • Accepted July 20, 2016
  • Published online October 1, 2016.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Haider Al-Shurafa, FRCS (Glasg)⇑,
  2. Ahmed H. Elzaafarany, MSc, MD,
  3. Ali Albenmousa, MD and
  4. Mona G. Balata, MD
  1. From the Departments of Surgery (Al-Shurafa), Medicine (Albenmousa, Balata), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, General Surgery Department (Hassan), Riyadh National Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Haider Al-Shurafa, Department of Surgery, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: haidershurafa{at}yahoo.com
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Haider Al-Shurafa, Ahmed H. Elzaafarany, Ali Albenmousa, Mona G. Balata
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Haider Al-Shurafa, Ahmed H. Elzaafarany, Ali Albenmousa, Mona G. Balata
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