Treatment of solitary small hepatocellular carcinoma: Consideration of hepatic functional reserve and mode of recurrence

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 47, Issue 32, 2000, Pages 507-511

  Horigome, Hideo ^c   Nomura, Tomoyuki ^d   Nakao, Haruhisa ^d   Saso, Katsuhisa ^d   Takahashi, Yoshitsugu ^a   Akita, Shinji ^d   Sobue, Satoshi ^a   Mizuno, Yaichi ^d   Nojiri, Shunsuke ^d   Hirose, Akinori ^a   Masuko, Kazuo ^a   Murasaki, Geni ^b   Fujino, Nobuo ^b   Nakahara, Renzo ^b   Ichikawa, Toshio ^b   Itoh, Makoto ^d  

^a Masuko Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b Nagoya Posts/Telecommunications H   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Hepatic functional reserve; Hepatic resection; Percutaneous ethanol injection therapy; Percutaneous microwave coagulation therapy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034001509     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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