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| Limitations of the US Food and Drug Administration laparoscopic banding trial | All Clinical Papers |
| Martin et al [1] report on findings from a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-supervised trial of Inamed’s laparoscopic banding system. The data being reported are important since they provide valuable information collected in an externally monitored clinical trial, a rarity in the bariatric surgery literature. None of the plethora of studies reporting favorable results with banding procedures had this level of monitoring and these data should serve as a reference for laparoscopic banding outcomes. However, there are some important caveats. | |
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