Should we deny surgery for malignant hepato-pancreatico-biliary tumors to elderly patients?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1093-1100

  Petrowsky, Henrik ^a   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; BILE DUCT CANCER; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; BLEEDING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; CYSTECTOMY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ELDERLY CARE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; KLATSKIN TUMOR; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFUSAL TO TREAT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 27744479972     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-1130-6     Document Type: Review

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