Outcome of 67 patients with hepatocellular cancer detected during screening of 1125 patients with chronic hepatitis

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 227, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 513-518

  Izzo, Francesco ^a   Cremona, Francesco ^a   Ruffolo, Fulvio ^a   Palaia, Raffaéle ^a   Parisi, Valerio ^a   Curley, Steven A ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Box 106 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031879640     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199804000-00011     Document Type: Article

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