Clinical significance of simultaneous determinations of alpha-fetoprotein and des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin in monitoring recurrence in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1781-1786

  Aoyagi, Yutaka ^a   Oguro, Makoto ^a   Yanagi, Masahiko ^a   Mita, Yuhsuke ^b   Suda, Takeshi ^a   Suzuki, Yasufumi ^a   Hata, Kohjirou ^b   Ichii, Kichisaburoh ^b   Asakura, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Niigata Bandai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

alpha fetoprotein; des gamma carboxy prothrombin; hepatocellular carcinoma; recurrence; regression

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; DECARBOXYPROTHROMBIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DETERMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FUCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTHROMBIN; REMISSION INDUCTION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029966485     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960501)77:9<1781::AID-CNCR4>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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