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[Surgical treatment of bronchial carcinoma in advanced age]
L Swoboda1, H Hammelrath, H Wertzel
1Sektion Thoraxchirurgie, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Harburg.
Langenbecks Archiv Fur Chirurgie. Supplement. Kongressband. Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Chirurgie. Kongress
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
As live expectancy increases, the number of elderly patients 70 and more years of age are also increasingly represented in a thoracic surgical series. The preponderance of malignant disease in this group, particularly lung cancer, is common. Progress in anesthesia, intensive care and operative techniques in recent years has reduced the risk of morbidity and operative mortality in this age group. Operative and 30-day hospital mortality was 4.8% in our series.