1. Neurosurgery in the older patient
- Author
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R. H. Shephard, Paul Millac, and Ian Stewart
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Male ,Risk ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,MEDLINE ,Malignant disease ,Text mining ,medicine ,Humans ,Craniotomy ,Aged ,Brain Diseases ,Spinal Neoplasms ,Brain Neoplasms ,business.industry ,Age Factors ,Laminectomy ,Articles ,General Medicine ,Spinal surgery ,Surgery ,Female ,Spinal Diseases ,Neurosurgery ,business - Abstract
Summary The outcome of brain and spinal surgery has been assessed in 141 patients who were over the age of 65 at the time of operation. Patients tolerated investigation and surgery remarkably well and good results were obtained for benign lesions. Survival times and the contribution of surgery to reducing disability in malignant disease were disappointing.
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- 1975