Esophageal resection in elderly esophageal carcinoma patients: Improvement in postoperative complications

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 414-418

  Kinugasa, Shoichi ^a   Tachibana, Mitsuo ^a   Yoshimura, Hiroshi ^a   Dhar, Dipok Kumar ^a   Shibakita, Muneaki ^a   Ohno, Satoshi ^a   Kubota, Hirofumi ^a   Masunaga, Reiko ^a   Nagasue, Naofumi ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035112946     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)02333-X     Document Type: Article

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