Patient ’s Skeletal Muscle Radiation Attenuation and Sarcopenic Obesity are Associated with Postoperative Morbidity after Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation and Resection for Rectal Cancer

Conclusion: Radiation attenuation was associated with overall and grade 3 –5 postoperative morbidity after neoadjuvant chemoradiation and non-laparoscopic resection for rectal cancer. Sarcopenic obesity was associated with overall complications.Dig Surg
Source: Digestive Surgery - Category: Surgery Source Type: research