Tokyo, Aug. 21 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000062577) titled 'Study of Muscle Condition on Preoperative CT and the Risk of Pneumonia After Gastric Cancer Surgery' on Aug. 20.
Study Type:
Observational
Primary Sponsor:
Institute - National Defense Medical College
Condition:
Condition - Gastric Cancer
Classification by malignancy - Malignancy
Genomic information - NO
Objective:
Narrative objectives1 - The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the association between preoperative CT-derived skeletal muscle quantity and quality and the development of postoperative pneumonia in patients undergoing curative gastrectomy for gastric cancer. Muscle quantity will be assessed...