Emergency colorectal resections in Asian octogenarians: Factors impacting surgical outcome

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 575-579

  Leong, Quor Meng ^a   Aung, Myint Oo ^a   Ho, Choon Kiat ^a   Sim, Richard ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asians; Colorectal; Emergency; Octogenarians

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONSULTATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HARTMANN PROCEDURE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT CODING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGMOID COLECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651156033     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3925-1     Document Type: Article

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