The safety of intra-abdominal surgery in patients with cirrhosis: Model for end-stage liver disease score is superior to Child-Turcotte-Pugh classification in predicting outcome

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 650-654

  Befeler, Alex S ^a   Palmer, Dean E ^a   Hoffman, Martin ^a,b   Longo, Walter ^a,c   Solomon, Harvey ^a   Di Bisceglie, Adrian M ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Connecticut Gastroenterology Associates ^*  (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL PATIENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23244450665     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.7.650     Document Type: Article

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