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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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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 |