A long-term survivor undergoing extensive microwave coagulation for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 30, 1999, Pages 3234-3236

  Sato, Motomichi ^a   Watanabe, Yuji ^a   Tokui, Kazuyoshi ^a   Murakami, Makoto ^a   Kohtani, Takashi ^a   Kawachi, Kanji ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic resection; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Long term survival; Microwave coagulation therapy; Multiple tumor

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MICROWAVE COAGULATION; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIATHERMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032785832     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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