Pre-operative psoas muscle index, a surrogate for sarcopenia; as a predictor of post-esophagectomy complications
Background Esophagectomy is the standard of care for curative esophageal cancer. However, it is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Esophageal cancer is known to negatively affect the nutritional status of patients and many manifest cancer sarcopenia. At present, measures of sarcope...
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Oxford University Press
2024
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/45917/ https://doi.org/10.1093/dote/doad072 |
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| Institution: | Universiti Malaya |