Predictive factors for complications in elderly patients who underwent head and neck oncologic surgery

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 170-177

  Sanabria, Alvaro ^a,b   Carvalho, André L ^a   Melo, Rosana L ^a   Magrin, José ^a   Ikeda, Mauro K ^a   Vartanian, José G ^a   Kowalski, Luiz P ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Aged; Comorbidity; Head and neck neoplasms; Postoperative complications; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NECK DISSECTION; NECROSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SEPSIS; SEROMA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 39149093413     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20671     Document Type: Article

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