National Trends in the Use of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Among Pediatric Patients With Severe Obesity

JAMA Pediatr. 2018 Dec 1;172(12):1191-1192. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.3030.

Cornelia L Griggs¹, Numa P Perez Jr¹, Robert N Goldstone¹, Cassandra M Kelleher^{2

3}, David C Chang^{2

4}, Fatima Cody Stanford^{5

6}, Janey S Pratt^{7

8}

¹ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Surgery, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁴ Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁵ Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology-Neuroendocrinology, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
⁶ Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
⁷ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
⁸ Departments of Surgery and Pediatric Surgery, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California.

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