Sarcopenia Predicts Cancer Mortality in Male but Not in Female Patients Undergoing Surgery for Cholangiocellular Carcinoma.
Markus Sebastian JördensLisa HeinrichsSven Heiko LoosenLinda WittigVerena KeitelDavid SchölerMaximilian Franz Schulze-HagenChristina LobergGerald AntochWolfram Trudo KnoefelTom LueddeGeorg FluegenChristoph RoderburgPublished in: Cancers (2021)
Measurement of muscle mass from preoperative CT scans represents an easily obtainable tool to estimate patient prognosis following curative surgery. The prognostic value was restricted to male patients, while in female patients these parameters did not reflect the patient outcome.
Keyphrases
- patients undergoing
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- computed tomography
- squamous cell carcinoma
- type diabetes
- skeletal muscle
- magnetic resonance
- atrial fibrillation
- cardiovascular disease
- acute coronary syndrome
- surgical site infection
- young adults
- childhood cancer