Gastric resection in the aged (≥ 80 years) with gastric carcinoma: A multivariate analysis of prognostic factors

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 254-257

  Kubota, Hirofumi ^a   Kotoh, Tsukasa ^a   Dhar, Dipok Kumar ^a   Masunaga, Reiko ^a   Tachibana, Mitsuo ^a   Tabara, Hideki ^a   Kohno, Hitoshi ^a   Nagasue, Naofumi ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged patients; Gastric carcinoma; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CARDIA CARCINOMA; GASTRECTOMY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034113585     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.2000.01802.x     Document Type: Article

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