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2448985

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11-12
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-3-14
pubmed:abstractText
Postoperative morbidity and mortality were studied in 72 patients who consecutively underwent total gastrectomy for primary gastric malignancy. Patients aged greater than or equal to 70 years (n = 32) were compared with younger patients (n = 40). Two patients in both groups died postoperatively, making the surgical mortality 6.3% and 5%, respectively. Major surgical complications arose postoperatively in 12 cases. Conservative measures (balloon dilation of anastomotic stricture, protracted drainage, and puncture and drainage of intraabdominal abscess) sufficed in five cases, while reoperation was required in seven. One of these seven patients died. The remaining three deaths were due to myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular insult and exudative pericarditis, respectively. The median postoperative hospital stay was 14 days in the younger and 15 days in the older patient group. Approximately half of the patients in both groups were alive 2 years postoperatively. Total gastrectomy is a meaningful and reasonably safe operation for primary gastric malignancy also in elderly patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0001-5482
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
153
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
677-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Total gastrectomy in the elderly patient.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Lund University, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article