Predictors of survival in terminal-cancer patients with irreversible bowel obstruction receiving home parenteral nutrition

Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 7-8, 2001, Pages 581-584

  Pasanisi, Fabrizio ^a   Orban, Andrea ^b   Scalfi, Luca ^a   Alfonsi, Lucia ^a   Santarpia, Lidia ^a   Zurlo, Enzo ^c   Celona, Angela ^b   Potenza, Adelaide ^b   Contaldo, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Hospital of Caserta   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bowel obstruction; Cancer; Home parenteral nutrition; Predictors; Survival

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TERMINAL DISEASE;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, HOME; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034935892     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(01)00579-2     Document Type: Article

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