Predictors of major morbidity and mortality after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: A Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database risk adjustment model

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 587-596

  Wright, Cameron D ^a   Kucharczuk, John C ^b   O'Brien, Sean M ^c   Grab, Joshua D ^c   Allen, Mark S ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG USE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; THORAX SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 60949104411     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.11.042     Document Type: Article

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