Current status and future directions of geriatric general surgery

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 7 SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Pofahl, Walter E ^a   Pories, Walter J ^a  

^a Department of Surgery ^*

Author keywords

Abdominal surgery; Biliary disease; Breast cancer; Emergency surgery; Endocrine disease

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GENERAL SURGERY; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; INFECTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NODULAR GOITER; PANCREAS CANCER; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID SURGERY; ULCER PERFORATION;

EID: 0038381807     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2389.2003.51347.x     Document Type: Review

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