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. 2011 Jan-Feb:(87):26-8.

[Surgical emergencies in elderly patients]

[Article in French]
Judith Cohen-Bittan  1 , Helene Lazareth, Lorene Zerah, Anne Forest, Jacques Boddaert
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  • PMID: 21416903

[Surgical emergencies in elderly patients]

[Article in French]
Judith Cohen-Bittan et al. 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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