[Surgical emergencies in elderly patients]
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French]
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[Surgical emergencies in elderly patients]
[Article in
French]
Soins Gerontol.
2011 Jan-Feb.
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.
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