The probable value of CCI and ACCI in assessing overall healthbefore recommending and proceeding with surgery, rather than age alone.Chronological age alone may not always reflect the postoperative outcomeof surgery.CCI and ACCI include in their calculation a few co-morbidconditions that we did not encounter in our patients (namely AIDS,lymphoma and leukemia). This might have affected the CCI and ACCI ofour patients.