title: [Surgical emergencies in elderly patients].
abstract: Surgical emergencies represent a diverse combination of common and particularly severe pathologies in elderly patients. This severity is due in part to concurrent comorbidities and sometimes atypical clinical presentations, causing delay in diagnosis and treatment.
authors.affiliation: Unité péri-opératoire gériatrique, Centre de gériatrie, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière (AP-HP), Paris.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cohen-Bittan
authors.forename: Helene
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lazareth
authors.forename: Lorene
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zerah
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Forest
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boddaert
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015897:Comorbidity; D003221:Confusion / Q000150:complications; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications; D057210:Delayed Diagnosis; D004630:Emergencies / Q000453:epidemiology; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000451:nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data