Overview of Bariatric Surgery

aDepartment of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA FACS *Correspondence address: Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD, FACS, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St SE, MMC 290, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA Received October 10, 2001; Accepted November 9, 2001. Presented at the American College of Surgeons Committee on Emerging Surgical Technology and Education Symposium, American College of Surgeons, 87th Annual Clinical Congress, New Orleans, LA, October 2001.