Influence of Fatty Liver Development and Recurrence of Primary Disease on Nutritional Status after Pancreaticoduodenectomy

Prognostic Impact of a Nutritional Index Including Muscle Volume in Stage 4 Colorectal Cancer

“…Skeletal muscle volume may also be a useful index for predicting the prognosis of patients with advanced cancer because many such patients have involuntary loss of skeletal muscle (3). The psoas muscle mass assessed by computed tomography (CT) may also be a predictor of prognosis (4). A reduction of this mass has recently been associated with treatment toxicity and poor functional status in patients with cancer (5,6), and loss of muscle mass has been found to aggravate the prognosis of pancreatic and hepatic cancer (4,7).…”