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Preoperative malnutrition assessments as predictors of postoperative mortality and morbidity in colorectal cancer: an analysis of ACS-NSQIP

BACKGROUND: Nutritional status is an important factor in predicting the risk associated with surgery for cancer patients. This is especially true in colorectal cancer. Many nutritional assessments are used in clinical practice, but those assessments are rarely evaluated for their ability to predict...

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Autores principales: Hu, Wan-H, Cajas-Monson, Luis C., Eisenstein, Samuel, Parry, Lisa, Cosman, Bard, Ramamoorthy, Sonia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4561437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26345703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-015-0081-5