The clinical picture of cachexia: a mosaic of different parameters (experience of 503 patients)
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- 作者：S. Schwarz ; O. Prokopchuk ; K. Esefeld ; S. Gröschel ; J. Bachmann ; S. Lorenzen…
- 关键词：Cancer cachexia ; Clinical parameters ; Clinical picture
- 刊名：BMC Cancer
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：664KB
- 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Surgical Oncology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Biomedicine, general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2407
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundDespite our growing knowledge about the pathomechanisms of cancer cachexia, a whole clinical picture of the cachectic patient is still missing. Our objective was to evaluate the clinical characteristics in cancer patients with and without cachexia to get the whole picture of a cachectic patient.