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Sarcopenia defined by Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia 2025 criteria is associated with postoperative infectious complications after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer.
Shota Sawai, Shinsuke Sato, Eiji Nakatani, Philip Hawke, Masato Nishida, Hiroshi Ogiso, Masaya Watanabe
Surgical oncologySep 9, 2026PMID 42721647doi:10.1016/j.suronc.2026.102567 Journal ArticlepubmedProvenance
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BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia is a predictor of postoperative infectious complications after esophagectomy and is modifiable by preoperative multimodal prehabilitation. The criteria of the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) published in 2019 have been widely used to diagnose sarcopenia. However,…
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