Colorectal surgery in octogenarians

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 46-50

  Spivak, Hadar ^a,b   Vande Maele, Dominique ^a   Friedman, Ira ^a   Nussbaum, Moses ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLOSTOMY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLOSTOMY; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030057303     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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