Editorial: Preoperative Frailty Risk Assessment Prior to Esophagectomy, Where Are We?

K A Fay¹, R M Hasson^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA. Rian.M.Hasson@Hitchcock.Org.
³ Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA. Rian.M.Hasson@Hitchcock.Org.
⁴ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, NH, USA. Rian.M.Hasson@Hitchcock.Org.

Editorial

K A Fay et al. Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 Jul.

. 2023 Jul;30(7):3892-3893.

doi: 10.1245/s10434-023-13210-2. Epub 2023 Mar 14.

K A Fay¹, R M Hasson^{2

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¹ Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA. Rian.M.Hasson@Hitchcock.Org.
³ Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA. Rian.M.Hasson@Hitchcock.Org.
⁴ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, NH, USA. Rian.M.Hasson@Hitchcock.Org.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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