Percutaneous microwave coagulation therapy for patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma: Comparison with percutaneous ethanol injection therapy

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1694-1702

  Seki, Toshihito ^a   Wakabayashi, Masayuki ^a   Nakagawa, Taiichi ^a   Imamura, Masato ^a   Tamai, Toru ^a   Nishimura, Akira ^a   Yamashiki, Noriyo ^a   Okamura, Akiharu ^a   Inoue, Kyoichi ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ethanol injection; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Microwave coagulation; Percutaneous local treatment; Tumor cell differentiation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033560771     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990415)85:8<1694::AID-CNCR8>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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