Diminished benefit from resection of cancer of the head of the pancreas in patients of advanced age

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 115-122

  Bathe, Oliver F ^a,c   Caldera, Humberto ^a   Hamilton, Kara L ^b   Franceschi, Dido ^a   Sleeman, Danny ^a   Livingstone, Alan S ^a   Levi, Joe U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geriatrics; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035004306     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.1081     Document Type: Article

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