Pancreatic resections for malignancy in patients aged 70 and older: Letters to the editor

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1323-1324

  Di Benedetto, Fabrizio ^a   Ballarin, Roberto ^a   De Ruvo, Nicola ^a   Berretta, Massimiliano ^b   Spaggiari, Mario ^a   Montalti, Roberto ^a   Guerrini, Gian Piero ^a   Gerunda, Giorgio Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN;

AGED; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649792138     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02332.x     Document Type: Letter

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