Surgical outcome of elderly patients 75 years of age and older with thoracic esophageal carcinoma

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 773-779

  Shimada, Hideaki ^a   Shiratori, Tooru ^a   Okazumi, Shinnichi ^a   Matsubara, Hisahiro ^a   Shuto, Kiyohiko ^a   Akutsu, Yasunori ^a   Narushima, Kazuo ^a   Nabeya, Yoshihiro ^a   Hayashi, Hideki ^a   Ochiai, Takenori ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947636542     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-0606-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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