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The relevance of muscle mass and quality to postoperative complications after open colon resection

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Junko Ueshima is responsible for the conception, interpretation, drafting and revising the manuscript, and approval of the final version of the manuscript. Hidetaka Wakabayashi, Keisuke Maeda, and Shinta Nishioka are responsible for the conception, interpretation, revising the manuscript, and approval of the final version of the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Clinical Nutrition and Food Services, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, 5-9-22 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-0022, Japan

    Junko Ueshima

  2. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Yokohama City University Medical Center, 4-57 Urafune-chou, Minami ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, 232-0024, Japan

    Hidetaka Wakabayashi

  3. Department of Nutrition and Dysphagia Rehabilitation, Tamana Regional Health Medical Center, 2172 Tamana, Tamana City, Kumamoto, 865-0005, Japan

    Keisuke Maeda

  4. Department of Clinical Nutrition and Food Services, Nagasaki Rehabilitation Hospital, 4-11 Ginya-machi, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, 850-0854, Japan

    Shinta Nishioka

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Ueshima, J., Wakabayashi, H., Maeda, K. et al. The relevance of muscle mass and quality to postoperative complications after open colon resection. Int J Colorectal Dis 31, 1541–1542 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-016-2571-0

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