Surgical management of colorectal metastases to the liver: Role of resection and cryosurgery

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 859-863

  Redlich, Philip N ^a,b   Baker, E Jack ^a   McAuliffe, Timothy L ^b   Quebbeman, Edward J ^a   Bedlich, ^c  

^a Dep of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CRYOSURGERY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030476371     PISSN: 00436542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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