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Sarcopenia and Patient's Body Composition: New Morphometric Tools to Predict Clinical Outcome After Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy: a Multicenter Study.

Andrea CossuDiego PalumboSilvia BattagliaPaolo PariseStefano De PascaleMonica GualtierottiMassimo VecchiatoGiulia Maria ScottiChiara GrittiAndrea BettinelliFrancesco PuccettiLavinia BarbieriManrica FabbiLuigi FunicelliGiuseppe Roberto BonfittoPaolo De MartiniAntonio MartinoAntonio ZiccarelliStefano FapranziLidia RavizziniAlessandro UzzauUberto Fumagalli RomarioGiovanni FerrariRoberto PetriUgo ElmoreFrancesco De CobelliRiccardo Rosatinull null
Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2023)
Analytical morphometric assessment represents a useful non-invasive tool for preoperative risk stratification. The concurrent association of sarcopenia and visceral obesity seems to be the best predictor of AL, far better than simple BMI evaluation, and potentially modifiable if targeted with prehabilitation programs.
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