Gastric surgery in the aged
Effenberger, T.; Schumpelick, V.
Zentralblatt für Chirurgie 109(5): 338-346
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-409X PMID: 6720128 Document Number: 225671
Because of continuous progression of age surgery of the aged has become a main problem especially in gastric surgery. 282 cases of more than 70 years old patients undergoing gastric operations between 1964 and 1981 are analyzed. There is a majority of emergency operations (62%), only 16% of the ulcer operations were elective. This caused a high mortality rate (total over 40%) compared with 10% in the elective group. Better results could be obtained by a higher elective rate, i.e. earlier diagnosis.