Excessive visceral fat area as a risk factor for early postoperative complications of total gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a known risk factor for complications after digestive surgery. Body mass index (BMI) is commonly used as an index of obesity but does not always reflect the degree of obesity. Although some studies have shown that high visceral fat area (VFA) is associated with poor outcomes i...

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Autores principales: Takeuchi, Masashi, Ishii, Kenjiro, Seki, Hiroaki, Yasui, Nobutaka, Sakata, Michio, Shimada, Akihiko, Matsumoto, Hidetoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27494994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-016-0168-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27494994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-016-0168-8

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