Ederveen, Jeannette C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2222-8386
Nienhuijs, Simon W.
Jol, Saskia
Robben, Simon G.F.
Nederend, Joost
Funding for this research was provided by:
Maastricht University Medical Center
Article History
Received: 18 November 2019
Revised: 8 January 2020
Accepted: 29 January 2020
First Online: 20 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Joost Nederend, MD, PhD.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Part of the control group (1475 patients) has been previously reported in a study into the use of CT scans in case of suspicion of internal herniation (Ederveen et al Predictive value of abdominal CT in evaluating internal herniation after bariatric laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. <i>Br J Surg</i> 105 [12], 1623–1629. 2018), and in a study into the accuracy of CT signs (Ederveen et al Diagnosing internal herniation after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: usefulness of systematically reviewing CT scans using ten signs. <i>Eur Radiol</i> 28 [9], 3583–3590. 2018).
: • prospective• diagnostic study• performed at one institution