Y Iwao, Y Kawashima, K Irita, T Kobayashi, Y Goto, K Morita, N Seo, K Tsuzaki, S Dohi
Perioperative mortality and morbidity in Japan for the year 1999 were analyzed retrospectively with special reference to operative regions. The total number of analyzed cases was 701,940. The percentages for each operative region were as follows, craniotomy 4.5%, thoracotomy 3.3%, heart and great-vessels 3.9%, thoracotomy with laparotomy 0.8%, laparotomy except caeserian-section 31.7%, ceserian-section 3.2%, head-neck and otolarynx 14.5%, chest-abdomen-perineum 11.1%, spine 3.5%, extremity including peripheral-vessel 16...
October 2001: Masui. the Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology