Open AccessPrognostic nutritional index predicts postoperative complications and long-term outcomes of gastric cancer
Author(s) -
Nan Jiang,
Jing Deng,
Xue Ding,
Bin Ke,
Ning Liu,
Ru peng Zhang,
Han Liang
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v20.i30.10537
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , gastroenterology , proportional hazards model , cancer , incidence (geometry) , logistic regression , gastrectomy , multivariate analysis , oncology , surgery , confidence interval , physics , optics
To investigate the impact of prognostic nutritional index (PNI) on the postoperative complications and long-term outcomes in gastric cancer patients undergoing total gastrectomy.