Obesity: Is there an increase in perioperative complications in those undergoing elective colon and rectal resection for carcinoma?

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 163-166

  Blee, Thomas H ^a   Belzer, G Eric ^a,b   Lambert, Pamela J ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Gundersen Lutheran ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; WOUND INFECTION; BLEEDING; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 0036483724     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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