Relationship of angiographic finding with neovascular structure detected by immunohistochemical staining of α-smooth muscle actin in small hepatocellular carcinoma

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1266-1273

  Ikeda, Kenji ^a,b   Saitoh, Satoshi ^a   Suzuki, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Masahiro ^a   Tsubota, Akihito ^a   Koida, Isao ^a   Kobayashi, Mizuho ^a   Arase, Yasuji ^a   Chayama, Kazuaki ^a   Murashima, Naoya ^a   Kumada, Hiromitsu ^a  

^a Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research   (Japan)

^b TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide enhanced ultrasonography; Computerized tomographic arterial portography; Digital subtraction angiography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Hypervascularity; Non triadal vessel; smooth muscle actin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0032445763     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1746.1998.01792.x     Document Type: Article

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