Surgical mortality, survival, and quality of life after resection for gastric cancer in the elderly

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 465-472

  Wu, Chew Wun ^a,b   Lo, Su Shun ^a,b   Shen, King Han ^a,b   Hsieh, Mao Chih ^a,b   Lui, Wing Yiu ^a,b   P'eng, Fang Ku ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANXIETY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; WORK;

EID: 0034056608     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689910074     Document Type: Article

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