ArticleGeneral thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2019
Sarcopenia predicts poor postoperative outcome in elderly patients with lung cancer.
Article in General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- Psoas muscle quantified muscle status and long-term mortality after cardiovascular interventions.Annals of medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Increased skeletal muscle loss as a predictor of recurrence in postoperative lung cancer patients.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Association between diaphragm thickness and postoperative complications in elderly patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.Surgery today · 2026Article
- Effect of preoperative cancer cachexia on postoperative sarcopenia in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Beyond the tumor: towards a cachexia-based host phenotype through body composition analysis in patients with resectable lung cancer.Translational lung cancer research · 2025Review
- The Impact of Sarcopenia on Early Postoperative Complications in Patients Undergoing Decortication due to Empyema: A Retrospective Study in Turkey.Journal of chest surgery · 2025Article
- Activin A is deeply involved in the progression of sarcopenia and leads to poor prognosis in lung cancer patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Psoas muscle index as a novel measure of frailty and predictor of post-operative outcome in octogenarians with non-small cell lung cancer.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Textbook oncological outcome of locally advanced gastric cancer patients with preoperative sarcopenia: a multicenter clinical study.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Article
- Study on postoperative survival prediction model for non-small cell lung cancer: application of radiomics technology workflow based on multi-organ imaging features and various machine learning algorithms.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Comparison of frailty indexes as predictors of clinical outcomes after major thoracic surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
- Georg Schmorl Prize of the German Spine Society (DWG) 2023: the influence of sarcopenia and paraspinal muscle composition on patient-reported outcomes: a prospective investigation of lumbar spinal fusion patients with 12-month follow-up.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024Article
- Myostatin expression in lung cancer induces sarcopenia and promotes cancer progression.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2024Article
- Effect of sarcopenia on short-term and long-term outcomes of older patients with locally advanced gastric cancer: a multicenter study.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Article
- Association between reduced muscle mass and poor prognosis of biliary sepsis.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- Detection and Classification of Melanoma Skin Cancer Using Image Processing Technique.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Prognostic relevance of sarcopenia, geriatric, and nutritional assessments in older patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: results of a multicentric prospective cohort study.Annals of hematology · 2023Article
- The process to overcome lung cancer sarcopenia.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
- External validation of risk prediction scores in patients undergoing anatomic video-assisted thoracoscopic resection.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Article
- Prediction of postoperative pulmonary complications in older patients undergoing lobectomy for lung cancer based on skeletal muscle mass.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeSarcopenia gradually progress with age; hence, it is necessary to define sarcopenia to predict postoperative outcomes in elderly patients with lung cancer. The purpose of this study is to propose a definition of sarcopenia in elderly patients with lung cancer, and to demonstrate the post operative outcomes.
methodsUsing computed tomography scans, the cross-sectional area (cm
resultsA total of 173 patients aged > 75 years of age received lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer in our hospital. We defined sarcopenia as the psoas muscle mass index under 3.70 cm
conclusionsIn elderly lung cancer patients, sarcopenia was observed to be a high risk for morbidity and predicted poor prognosis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.