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Early postoperative mortality in the elderly: a pilot study

BACKGROUND: As the population ages and as surgical and anaesthetic techniques advance, more elderly people will be referred for surgery. Postoperative mortality and morbidity are certainly associated with increasing age; however the severity of coexisting medical conditions is an equally important r...

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Autores principales: Asouhidou, Irene, Asteri, Theodora, Sountoulides, Petros, Natsis, Konstantinos, Georgiadis, George
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19570202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-2-118