Risk factors for postoperative systemic complications in elderly patients with brain tumors: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 258-264

  Asano, Kenichiro ^a   Nakano, Takahiro ^a   Takeda, Tetsuji ^a   Ohkuma, Hiroki ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Elderly patient; Postoperative systemic complication; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; PROTEIN;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BELL PALSY; BLEEDING; BLOOD; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIARRHEA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; GLIOSARCOMA; HERPES ZOSTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; ILEUS; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD PROTEINS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 68849095676     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.10.17669     Document Type: Article

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