Emergency Abdominal Operations in the Elderly: A Multivariate Regression Analysis of 430 Consecutive Patients with Acute Abdomen

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2854-2861

  Ukkonen, Mika ^a,b   Kivivuori, Antti ^c   Rantanen, Tuomo ^d   Paajanen, Hannu ^d  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b SEINÄJOKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c MIKKELI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84947033629     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-015-3207-1     Document Type: Article

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