Total gastrectomy: Updated operative mortality and long-term survival with particular reference to patients older than 70 years of age

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-42

  Bittner, Reinhard ^a   Butters, Michael ^a   Ulrich, Martin ^a   Uppenbrink, Stefan ^a   Beger, Hans G ^b  

^a MARIENHOSPITAL STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARCINOMA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GERMANY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029889754     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199607000-00006     Document Type: Article

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