Targeting locoregional immunochemotherapy with new drugs in metastatic liver disease: A promising alternative

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 2248-2251

  Lygidakis, N J ^a   Berberabe, A E ^a   Spentzouris, N ^a   Dedemadi, G ^a   Kalligas, T ^a   Loukas, G ^a   Sotiropoulou, B ^a  

^a ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adjuvant immunochemotherapy; Interleukin 2; Metastatic liver disease; Transplenic immunostimulation

Indexed keywords

IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE; OXALIPLATIN; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 2;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER METASTASIS; MALAISE; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032412942     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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