Surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombus in the right atrium

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 824-825

  Iemura, Junzo ^a   Aoshima, Minoru ^a   Ishigami, Naoyuki ^a   Kaneda, Toshio ^a   Oba, Noriyuki ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal circulation; Hepatic exclusion technique; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Right atrium; Tumor thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LOBECTOMY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR THROMBUS;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS;

EID: 0030960215     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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