Pancreatic surgery in the very old: Face to face with a challenge of the near future

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1013-1020

  Belyaev, Orlin ^a   Herzog, Torsten ^a   Kaya, Guelnur ^a   Chromik, Ansgar M ^a   Meurer, Kirsten ^a   Uhl, Waldemar ^a   Müller, Christophe A ^a  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885623486     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-013-1944-6     Document Type: Article

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