Complications of elective liver resections in a center with low mortality: a simple score to predict morbidity.

Abstract

The score allows for identification of patients most susceptible to complications, in whom efforts against specific postoperative morbidities can be concentrated.

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Subjects

• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Hepatectomy
• Humans
• Liver Diseases
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Morbidity
• Patient Selection
• Postoperative Complications
• Prognosis
• Retrospective Studies
• Surgical Procedures, Elective
• Survival Rate
• Switzerland

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Authors

• Axel Andres
• Christian Toso
• Bogdan Moldovan
• Eduardo Schiffer
• Laura Rubbia-Brandt
• Sylvain Terraz
• Claude E Klopfenstein
• Philippe Morel
• Pietro Majno
• Gilles Mentha

Publication date

2011-11-22

Journal

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)

Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneve, Switzerland.

Release reference

Arch Surg. 2011 Nov;146(11):1246-52

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