The usefulness of radiation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 791-796

  Matsuura, Masana ^a,b   Nakajima, Nobuaki ^a   Arai, Kazumori ^a   Ito, Kazuki ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Gunma Cancer Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Prognosis; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031824406     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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