title: [Surgical treatment of bronchial carcinoma in advanced age].
abstract: As live expectancy increases, the number of elderly patients 70 and more years of age are also increasingly represented in a thoracic surgical series. The preponderance of malignant disease in this group, particularly lung cancer, is common. Progress in anesthesia, intensive care and operative techniques in recent years has reduced the risk of morbidity and operative mortality in this age group. Operative and 30-day hospital mortality was 4.8% in our series.
authors.affiliation: Sektion Thoraxchirurgie, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Harburg.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Swoboda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hammelrath
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wertzel
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hasse
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D005858:Germany; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000401:mortality*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Chirurgische Behandlung des Bronchialkarzinoms im höheren Alter.