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Conclusion Our findings support the conclusion that: 1) gastric cancer in older patients warrants surgical resection because the benefit to these patients is the same as for younger patients in terms of early outcomes; 2) elderly patients did not present with more aggressive and advanced gastric carcinoma; and 3) age alone should not preclude gastric resection in elderly patients. from XXI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Terni, Italy. 4–6 December 2008
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XI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Francesco Sciannameo, Giammario Giustozzi and Beatrice Sensi Publication of this supplement was made possible with support from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2318-9-S1
We retrospectively reviewed our experience with gastric cancer and compared patients younger than 75 years old to elderly ones to see if there are any differences in clinicopathological features and early-term outcomes between the two groups
We had 3 postoperative complications in the first group (12.5%), 1 of which (33.3%) required a reintervention; in the second group 5 patients (15.6%) had complications and in one case (20%) was requested a reintervention
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Address: Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Perugia, Italy * Corresponding author from XXI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Terni, Italy. Published: 1 April 2009 BMC Geriatrics 2009, 9(Suppl 1):A81 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-9-S1-A81. XI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Francesco Sciannameo, Giammario Giustozzi and Beatrice Sensi Publication of this supplement was made possible with support from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2318-9-S1-. We retrospectively reviewed our experience with gastric cancer and compared patients younger than 75 years old to elderly ones to see if there are any differences in clinicopathological features and early-term outcomes between the two groups
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