Accurate preoperative evaluation of liver mass lesions without fine- needle biopsy

Hepatology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 889-893

  Torzilli, Guido ^a   Minagawa, Masami ^a   Takayama, Tadatoshi ^a   Inoue, Kazuto ^a   Hui, Ai Min ^a   Kubota, Keiichi ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^b   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a,c  

^a Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; TUMOR MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IODIZED OIL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032862122     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510300411     Document Type: Article

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