The influence of age on mortality and survival in patients undergoing oesophagogastrectomies. A seven-year experience in a tertiary centre

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-69

  Elsayed, Hany ^a,b   Whittle, Ian ^a   McShane, James ^a   Howes, Nathan ^a   Hartleys, Mark ^a   Shackcloth, Michael ^a   Page, Richard ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Octogenarians; Oesophageal cancer

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HEART DISEASE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; ENGLAND; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GASTRECTOMY; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954555500     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.223826     Document Type: Article

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