National estimates of mortality rates for radical pancreaticoduodenectomy in 25,000 patients

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 847-854

  Kotwall, Cyrus A ^a,b,c   Maxwell, J Gary ^a,b,c   Brinker, Carda C ^a   Koch, Gary G ^c   Covington, Deborah L ^c  

^a New Hanover Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^b New Hanover Health Network   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital volume; Mortality rate; Pancreaticoduodenectomy; Whipple procedure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; RISK; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

EID: 0036841801     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02557520     Document Type: Article

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