Body mass index and major cancer surgery outcomes: Lack of association or need for alternative measurements of obesity?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2264-2273

  Al Refaie, Waddah B ^a   Parsons, Helen M ^b   Henderson, William G ^c   Jensen, Eric H ^a   Tuttle, Todd M ^a   Rothenberger, David A ^a   Kellogg, Todd A ^a   Virnig, Beth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMA; COMORBIDITY; COVARIANCE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS SURGERY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORAX SURGERY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; OBESITY; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956341623     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1023-2     Document Type: Article

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