Major liver resections in the elderly - Is an aggressive approach justified?

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-86

  Bockhorn, Maximilian ^b   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a   Sgourakis, George ^a   Neuhaus, Jan P ^a   Molmenti, Ernesto P ^a   Lang, Hauke ^a   Frilling, Andreja ^a   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colorectal liver metastases; Elderly; Liver resection; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER LEFT LOBE RESECTION; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER RIGHT LOBE RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECTIONECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 57049115887     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-008-0571-4     Document Type: Article

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