The impact of age and ageing on hepatocarcinoma surgery: Short- and long-term outcomes in a multicentre propensity-matched cohort.
Simone FamularoStefano Di SandroAlessandro GianiMarco AngrisaniAndrea LauterioFabrizio RomanoLuca GianottiLuciano De CarlisPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2019)
Ageing per se is not an absolute contraindication for liver resection, given the acceptable oncologic long-term prognosis, but the worse short-term outcomes in the elderly should induce an accurate patient selection.
Keyphrases
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- case report
- clinical trial
- middle aged
- study protocol
- robot assisted
- rectal cancer
- high resolution
- surgical site infection
- community dwelling
- cross sectional
- radical prostatectomy
- prostate cancer
- randomized controlled trial
- double blind
- mass spectrometry
- percutaneous coronary intervention