Endocrine Abstracts

We describe the case of a 32-year-old lady Polish lady, who presented to the surgical team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in July 2012 with abdominal pain and vomiting. The previous year she had undergone a private ‘banded bypass’ operation in Poland resulting in 60 kg weight loss. On admission she was diagnosed with a slipped gastric band, to be confirmed by laparoscopy. Surprisingly the ‘band’ was in fact a length of surgical drain sutured to the m...