Characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with negative virus markers: Clinicopathologic study of resected tumors

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 301-305

  Shiraishi, Masayuki ^a   Hiroyasu, Shungo ^a   Nagahama, Masayoshi ^a   Tomita, Syuji ^a   Miyahira, Takumi ^a   Kusano, Toshiomi ^a   Furukawa, Masato ^b   Muto, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Nagasaki Chuo National Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033034857     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013187     Document Type: Article

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