Modified Frailty Index Predicts Morbidity and Mortality After Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Open Access
- 5 January 2017
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Annals of Surgical Oncology
- Vol. 24 (6) , 1714-1721
Abstract
Pancreatic cancer is a disease of older adults, who may present with limited physiologic reserve. The authors hypothesized that a frailty index can predictKeywords
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