Elective surgery for gastrointestinal tumours in the elderly

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 317-326

  Audisio, R A ^a,b   Veronesi, P ^a   Ferrario, L ^a,b   Cipolla, C ^a   Andreoni, B ^a   Aapro, M ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b GIOGer   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal surgery; Cancer in the elderly; Gastrointestinal; Liver surgery; Neoplasms; Surgical oncology

Indexed keywords

AGED; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030918289     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008294921269     Document Type: Review

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