Hepatic cryosurgery for liver metastases: Long-term follow-up

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-201

  Korpan, Nikolai N ^a,b,c  

^a Intl Institute of Cryosurgery   (Austria)

^b BOGOMOLETS NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0031049029     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199702000-00007     Document Type: Article

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