Is radiological psoas muscle area measurement a predictor of postoperative complications after rectal resection for rectal cancer? A retrospective study

Autor: Motoharu Hirai, Hiroaki Uehara, Akira Iwaya, Akira Kubota, Daisuke Sato, Shiori Utsumi, Hitoshi Kameyama, Rina Harada, Tomohiro Katada, Toshiyuki Yamazaki, Shirou Kuwabara, Kazuaki Kobayashi, Naoyuki Yokoyama, Masaru Komatsu, Tetsuya Otani
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Surgery today. 52(2)
ISSN: 1436-2813
Popis: Previous studies have reported that sarcopenia increases the risk of postoperative complications following colorectal resection. This retrospective study assessed the postoperative complications of rectal resection associated with sarcopenia. We retrospectively analyzed 262 patients who underwent curative low anterior resection for primary rectal cancer from January 2008 to May 2020 at our institution. The patients were divided into a sarcopenia group (normalized total psoas muscle area
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