Clinical Outcome and Long-Term Survival Rates after Esophagectomy Are Not Determined by Age over 70 Years

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-62

  Johansson, Jan ^a,b   Walther, Bruno ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Esophagectomy; Old age; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICALLY-CREATED STRUCTURES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033628451     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(00)80033-5     Document Type: Article

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