The long term efficacy of combined transcatheter arterial embolization and percutaneous ethanol injection in the treatment of patients with large hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 78-85

  Tanaka, Katsuaki ^a   Nakamura, Saburo ^a   Numata, Kazushi ^a   Kondo, Masaaki ^a   Morita, Katsumi ^a   Kitamura, Takehiko ^a   Saito, Satoru ^a   Kiba, Takayoshi ^a   Okazaki, Hiroshi ^a   Sekihara, Hisahiko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Percutaneous ethanol injection; Survival rate; Transcatheter arterial embolization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GELATIN SPONGE, ABSORBABLE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; IODIZED OIL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SAFETY; SOLVENTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031893533     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980101)82:1<78::AID-CNCR9>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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