Criteria to consider when assessing the mortality risk in geriatric surgery

International Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 72-76

  Yilmazlar, Tuncay ^a   Guner, Osman ^a   Yilmazlar, Aysun ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Age factors; Elderly; Mortality; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGERY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 33748098199     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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