Original Article

Anorectal Surgery in the Elderly Patient

Authors: FRED B. HODGES Jr. M.D.

Abstract

In all fields of surgery chronologic age per se is no longer the prime consideration in the denial of surgical treatment to the older patient. Rather it is the presence or absence or extent of systemic disorders which set the limits to the operative procedures.

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