Preexisting disease as a predictor of the outcome of colectomy

The American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 497-498

  Fallahzadeh, Hossein ^b   Mays, Everett T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery Humana Hospital Lake Cumberland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLON DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0025757362     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9610(91)90272-F     Document Type: Article

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