Is pancreaticoduodenectomy justified in elderly patients?

Surgeon

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 128-136

  Kow, A W C ^a   Sadayan, N A ^b   Ernest, A ^a   Wang, B ^a   Chan, C Y ^a   Ho, C K ^a   Liau, K H ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Elderly; Pancreaticoduodenectomy; Whipple operation

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGAPORE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGAPORE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860129856     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surge.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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