Radical surgery for pancreatic malignancy in the elderly

Pancreatology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-502

  Oliverius, M ^a   Kala, Z ^b   Varga, M ^a   Gurlich R ^a   Lanska, V ^a   Kubesova, H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Pancreatic cancer; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIODIGESTIVE ANASTOMOTIC LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEMIPANCREATODUODENECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAABDOMINAL INFLAMMATORY COLLECTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATIC LEAKAGE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PANCREATICOJEJUNOANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 77955649315     PISSN: 14243903     EISSN: 14243911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000288705     Document Type: Article

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