Predictive factors for postoperative pulmonary complications and mortality after esophagectomy for cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 791-800

  Law, Simon ^a   Wong, Kam Ho ^a   Kwok, Ka Fai ^a   Chu, Kent Man ^a   Wong, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHYLOTHORAX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH OBSTRUCTION; STROKE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 7044235148     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000143123.24556.1c     Document Type: Article

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