title: [Gastroduodenal surgery in patients over 80].
abstract: Between 1969 and 1981 surgery was performed in 118 patients over eighty years old with gastroduodenal diseases. The main indications were carcinomas and ulcers. The combined mortality amounted to 34.8%. One of the main problems of surgery in elder patients turned out to be the simultaneous presence of accompanying diseases. Whenever possible surgery should be performed before the onset of complications.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D004378:Duodenal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000601:surgery; D010439:Peptic Ulcer Perforation / Q000601:surgery; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Gastroduodenale Chirurgie bei Patienten über 80 Jahre.