Is preoperative hepatic arterial chemoembolization safe and effective for hepatocellular carcinoma?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-9

  Harada, Toshiro ^a   Matsuo, Katsuichi ^a   Inoue, Takato ^b   Tamesue, Satoshi ^a   Inoue, Toshitaka ^a   Nakamura, Hideharu ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Inatsuki Fujii Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR NECROSIS;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029887379     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199607000-00002     Document Type: Article

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