Emergency surgery for patients with colorectal cancer over 90 years of age

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 48, 2002, Pages 1538-1539

  Catena, Fausto ^a   Pasqualini, Eddi ^a   Tonini, Valeria ^a   Avanzolini, Andrea ^a   Campione, Orazio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Emergency surgery; Old

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CARCINOMATOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STOMA; THERAPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036839998     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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