Echogenicity of liver metastases is an independent prognostic factor after potentially curative treatment

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1285-1290

  Gruenberger, Thomas ^a   Jourdan, Jean Luc ^a   Zhao, Jing ^a   King, Julie ^a   Morris, David Lawson ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLOXURIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033760888     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.135.11.1285     Document Type: Article

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