POSSUM predicts survival in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-79

  De Castro, S M M ^a   Houwert, J T ^a   Lagard, S M ^a   Busch, O R C ^a   Van Gulik, T M ^a   Gouma, D J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gastrojejunostomy; Hepaticojejunostomy; Laparotomy, exploratory; Pancreatic cancer, unresectable

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BYPASS SURGERY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LAPAROTOMY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PHYSIOLOGICAL AND OPERATIVE SEVERITY SCORE FOR THE ENUMERATION OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH EMPTYING; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 58349084311     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000194982     Document Type: Article

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