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Abstract
The geriatric patient with a remediable surgical lesion should not be denied the benefits of surgery, provided he has a thorough preoperative evaluation and correction of any physiologic imbalances and receives careful intraoperative and postoperative management. Surgery in these patients, however, does present problems such as those associated with anesthesia; peptic ulcer; biliary, colonic and rectal disease, and massive gastrointestinal bleeding.