Assessment for frailty is useful for predicting morbidity in elderly patients undergoing colorectal cancer resection whose comorbidities are already optimized

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-143

  Tan, Kok Yang ^a   Kawamura, Yutaka J ^b   Tokomitsu, Aika ^b   Tang, Terence ^a  

^a KHOO TECK PUAT HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Frailty; Surgical outcomes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGAPORE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84863989679     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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