Chronological changes of causes of death and distant metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma

Oncology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 331-335

  Itoh, Yoshinobu ^a   Ohkubo, Keiji ^a   Iuchi, Hideto ^a   Michitaka, Kojiro ^a   Horiike, Norio ^a   Onji, Morikazu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advancement of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches; Cause of death; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Pulmonary metastasis; Transcatheter arterial embolization

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036511177     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.9.2.331     Document Type: Article

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