| pubmed-article:6084561 | pubmed:abstractText | The Authors, after pointing out that, in geriatric age, the incidence of left colon carcinoma has significantly increased, and this, in a high quantity of cases, goes unnoticed in precocious stage, but appears "d'emblée" pith an occlusive situation, state their experience concerning the surgical treatment of occlusions due to left colon carcinoma in patients aged over sixty. From the evaluation of the results they obtained, the Authors assert that, if the operation is performed after a correct appraisal of the patient's general conditions and after an adequate counterbalancing of the metabolic and functional alterations, often present in old people, the operative mortality, the postoperative complications and the indices of survival are not so significantly different from those remarked in the young subjects. | lld:pubmed |
