ReviewJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2008
Geriatric surgery is about disease, not age.
Review in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Comparative Analysis of Perioperative Complications in Octogenarians and Patients under 60 Years of Age after Primary Cemented Total Knee Arthroplasty.Clinical medicine & research · 2023Article
- Outcomes of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography-guided gallbladder drainage compared to percutaneous cholecystostomy in acute cholecystitis.Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery · 2023Article
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- Higher rates of surgical and medical complications and mortality following TKA in patients aged ≥ 80 years: a systematic review of comparative studies.EFORT open reviews · 2021Review
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- Comorbidities rather than age affect medium-term outcome in octogenarian patients after total knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2020Article
- Considerations of elderly factors to manage the complication of liver cirrhosis in elderly patients.World journal of gastroenterology · 2019Review
- Relationship between age and outcome in thyroid surgery: a prospective observational study.Innovative surgical sciences · 2017Article
- Hypertension and Risk of Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2017Article
- Liver resection in the elderly: significance of comorbidities and blood loss.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2014Article
- Quality of life and long-term outcomes of octo- and nonagenarians following acute care surgery: a cross sectional study.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2013Article
- Aging, cancer, and cancer vaccines.Immunity & ageing : I & A · 2012Article
- Safety and efficacy of a new percutaneously implantable interspinous process device.Acta neurochirurgica · 2010Article
- Unscheduled general surgery has higher costs for older adults.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgieArticle
- Comparison of Selected Older and Younger Patients Regarding Optimal Surgical Treatment of Colorectal Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study.Cancer diagnosis & prognosisArticle
- Outcome prediction with Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of Mortality and Morbidity score system in elderly patients submitted to elective surgery.Saudi journal of anaesthesiaArticle
- 2017 WSES and SICG guidelines on acute calcolous cholecystitis in elderly population.World journal of emergency surgery : WJESReview
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Maintaining life span and quality of life remains a valid aim of surgery in elderly people. Surgery can be an effective way of restoring both length and quality of life to older people. Minimally invasive techniques and surgery under local anaesthesia make fewer demands on geriatric physiology; given that co-morbidity is a stronger predictor of outcome from surgery than age, this is a significant consideration.
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