Standard Radical Gastrectomy in Octogenarians and Nonagenarians with Gastric Cancer: Are Short-Term Surgical Results and Long-Term Survival Substantial?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 728-737

  Hsu, Jun Te ^a   Liu, Maw Sen ^a   Wang, Frank ^a   Chang, Chee Jen ^b   Hwang, Tsann Long ^a   Jan, Yi Yin ^a   Yeh, Ta Sen ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gastrectomy; Gastric cancer; Nodal status; Oldest old; Surgical outcome

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH TUMOR; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862811309     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-012-1835-4     Document Type: Article

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