Age as a prognostic factor for complications of major head and neck surgery

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 605-609

  Boruk, Marina ^a,c   Chernobilsky, Boris ^b   Rosenfeld, Richard M ^a   Har El, Gady ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BENIGN TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LARYNGECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAXILLA RESECTION; MEDICAL RECORD; MOUTH CAVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; ORAL SURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RECORDING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MAXILLA; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23044503634     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.131.7.605     Document Type: Review

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