## Abstract Before 1979, no patient 80 years of age or older had been operated on at our institution for esophageal cancer, while in the middle period (1980โ1984), three patients were operated on, and postoperative pulmonary complications and operative death occurred in 66.7 and 33.3%, respectively
Surgical Outcome of Elderly Patients 75 Years of Age and Older with Thoracic Esophageal Carcinoma
โ Scribed by Hideaki Shimada; Tooru Shiratori; Shinnichi Okazumi; Hisahiro Matsubara; Kiyohiko Shuto; Yasunori Akutsu; Kazuo Narushima; Yoshihiro Nabeya; Hideki Hayashi; Takenori Ochiai
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 151 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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