Preoperative serum albumin but not prealbumin is an excellent predictor of postoperative complications and mortality in patients with gastrointestinal cancer

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1286-1289

  Lin, Matthew Y C ^a   Liu, Wendy Y ^a   Tolan, Amy M ^a   Aboulian, Armen ^a   Petrie, Beverley A ^a   Stabile, Bruce E ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; PREALBUMIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEIZURE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREALBUMIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80755142751     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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