Preoperative Enteral Immunonutrition Improves Postoperative Outcome in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer
- 21 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in World Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 30 (7) , 1284-1289
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-005-0756-8
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of preoperative immunonutrition pharmaceutics (IMPACT) diet versus standard enteral nutrition (EN) on the nutritional status and immunity of patients with colorectal or gastrointestinal (GI) cancer and to evaluate whether it influences the incidence of postoperative complication.Keywords
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