ArticleCancers2021
Sarcopenia Predicts Cancer Mortality in Male but Not in Female Patients Undergoing Surgery for Cholangiocellular Carcinoma.
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- Impact of imaging-diagnosed sarcopenia on outcomes in patients with biliary tract cancer after surgical resection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.World journal of surgical oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence and predictive value of sarcopenia in surgically treated cholangiocarcinoma: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Sex-stratified prognostic value of low skeletal muscle index in advanced non-small cell lung Cancer: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Joint association of systemic inflammatory response index and sarcopenia with mortality among individuals with self-reported cancer.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- Bone mineral density as a prognostic marker in patients with biliary tract cancer undergoing surgery.BJC reports · 2024Article
- The prognostic impact of preoperative body composition in perihilar and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.Hepatology communications · 2022Article
- Preoperative Assessment of Skeletal Muscle Mass and Muscle Quality Using Computed Tomography: Incidence of Sarcopenia in Patients with Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Selected for Liver Resection.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Body Composition in Cholangiocarcinoma Affects Immune Cell Populations in the Tumor and Normal Liver Parenchyma.Journal of clinical and experimental hepatologyArticle
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Abstract
introductionSurgery represents the only curative treatment option for patients with cholangiocarcinoma. However, complete tumor resection requires extensive surgery in many patients, and it is still debated which patients represent the ideal candidates for such therapy in terms of overall survival. Sarcopenia has been associated with an adverse outcome for various malignancies, but its role in the context of patients undergoing tumor resection for cholangiocellular adenocarcinoma (CCA) is only poorly understood. Here, we evaluated the role of sarcopenia in the outcome of CCA patients undergoing radical tumor resection.
methodsPre-operative CT scans were used to assess the skeletal muscle index (L3SMI) as well as the psoas muscle index (L3PMI) in
resultsPatients with a skeletal muscle index or psoas muscle index above an established ideal cut-off (54.26 and 1.685 cm
conclusionMeasurement of muscle mass from preoperative CT scans represents an easily obtainable tool to estimate patient prognosis following curative surgery. The prognostic value was restricted to male patients, while in female patients these parameters did not reflect the patient outcome.
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