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Surg Today. 2018 Dec;48(12):1102-1103. doi: 10.1007/s00595-018-1702-3. Epub 2018 Aug 10.

Authors

Makoto Hikage^{1

2}, Masanori Tokunaga^{3

4}, Rie Makuuchi¹, Tomoyuki Irino¹, Yutaka Tanizawa¹, Etsuro Bando¹, Taiichi Kawamura¹, Masanori Terashima¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Gastric Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan.
² Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan.
³ Division of Gastric Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan. [email protected].
⁴ Gastric Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital East, 6-5-1, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8577, Japan. [email protected].

PMID: 30097708
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-018-1702-3

No abstract available

Keywords: Elderly; Gastrectomy; Gastric cancer; Prognostic factors; Survival.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged, 80 and over
Aging / physiology*
Body Mass Index*
Female
Gastrectomy*
Humans
Male
Nutritional Status / physiology*
Prognosis
Sarcopenia*
Stomach Neoplasms / mortality
Stomach Neoplasms / physiopathology*
Stomach Neoplasms / surgery*
Survival
Time Factors