Abstract
Fourteen patients (over 75 years old) with a mediastinal tumor who underwent surgery were retrospectively reviewed. Postoperative complications occurred in 4 of them. Two of the four patients over 80 years old developed postoperative delirium. There was no postoperative delirium in 70-79-year-old patients. The shortest hospitalization period was 7 days, and the average was 30.3 days (longest: 164 days). The incidences of postoperative complications and delirium were high in the elderly patients. Surgical indications of mediastinal tumor should be more strictly limited, and less invasive surgery should be applied to older patients as much as possible.
