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      Sarcopenia adversely impacts postoperative complications following resection or transplantation in patients with primary liver tumors.

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          Sarcopenia is a surrogate marker of patient frailty that estimates the physiologic reserve of an individual patient. We sought to investigate the impact of sarcopenia on short- and long-term outcomes in patients having undergone surgical intervention for primary hepatic malignancies.

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          Journal
          J. Gastrointest. Surg.
          Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
          1873-4626
          1091-255X
          Feb 2015
          : 19
          : 2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Blalock 688, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
          Article
          NIHMS661460
          10.1007/s11605-014-2680-4
          4332815
          25389056
          ae6a3de1-3f99-4b2e-b78f-329479d3a013
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