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Esophageal resection in the ederly
- Source :
- BMC Geriatrics, Vol 10, Iss Suppl 1, p A34 (2010), BMC Geriatrics
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, Floor 6, 236 Gray's Inn Road, 2010.
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Abstract
- Background The aging of the population and longer life expectancy entails an increased number of elderly patients with esophageal cancer and benign pathologies referred for surgical treatment. Esophageal cancer is a pathology that mainly involves elderly patients. The aim of this study is to assess the effects of age on the outcome of surgery for esophageal cancer and benign pathologies in patients treated in our department.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study
Rehabilitation
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Population
Achalasia
Esophageal cancer
lcsh:Geriatrics
medicine.disease
Bioinformatics
humanities
Surgery
Resection
lcsh:RC952-954.6
medicine
Life expectancy
In patient
Geriatrics and Gerontology
Meeting abstract
education
business
Surgical treatment
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Geriatrics, Vol 10, Iss Suppl 1, p A34 (2010), BMC Geriatrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b706a66b3ed8e845d965d89a0b5cd3e1