Does radical resection improve the survival in patients with carcinoma of the gallbladder who are 75 years old and older?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1315-1318

  Onoyama, Hirohiko ^a   Ajiki, Tetsuo ^b   Takada, Moriatsu ^b   Urakawa, Tomoaki ^a   Saitoh, Yoichi ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI NAKATSU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RADICAL RESECTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036835103     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6163-5     Document Type: Article

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