Colorectal carcinoma metastases to the liver: Does primary tumor location affect its lobar distribution?

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2213-2216

  Shirai, Yoshio ^a   Wakai, Toshifumi ^a   Ohtani, Tetsuya ^a   Sakai, Yasuo ^a   Tsukada, Kazuhiro ^a   Hatakeyama, Katsuyoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

colorectal neoplasms; hepatectomy; hepatic metastases; neoplasm metastasis; portal system; portal vein; streamline flow

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FLUOROURACIL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MESENTERIC VEINS; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; PORTAL VEIN; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0029945210     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960601)77:11<2213::AID-CNCR5>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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