Impact of laparoscopic surgery on short-term and long-term outcomes in elderly obese patients with colon cancer.
Nobuaki HoshinoKoya HidaYusuke FujitaMasaichi OhiraHeita OzawaHiroyuki BandoTomonori AkagiYohei KonoKentaro NakajimaYutaka KojimaTakatoshi NakamuraMasafumi InomataSeiichiro YamamotoYoshiharu SakaiTakeshi NaitohMasahiko WatanabeKazutaka ObamaPublished in: Annals of gastroenterological surgery (2023)
Laparoscopic surgery is safe in elderly obese patients with colon cancer and does not worsen their prognosis. There was no significant difference in the effectiveness of laparoscopic surgery between obese patients who were elderly and those who were nonelderly.