Measurement of liver volume and hepatic functional reserve as a guide to decision-making in resectional surgery for hepatic tumors

Hepatology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1176-1181

  Kubota, Keiichi ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a   Kusaka, Koji ^a   Kobayashi, Takashi ^a   Miki, Kenji ^a   Hasegawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Harihara, Yasushi ^a   Takayama, Tadatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TUMOR; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030710208     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510260514     Document Type: Article

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