Hepatic resection and percutaneous ethanol injection as treatments of small hepatocellular carcinoma: A Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP 08) retrospective case-control study

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-67

  Daniele, Bruno ^a   De Sio, Ilario ^b   Izzo, Francesco ^a   Capuano, Gaetano ^c   Andreana, Augusto ^b   Mazzanti, Roberto ^d   Aiello, Antonino ^e   Vallone, Paolo ^f   Fiore, Francesco ^f   Gaeta, Giovan Battista ^b   Perrone, Francesco ^f   Pignata, Sandro ^a   Gallo, Ciro ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d Med Interna Universita di Firenze   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^f INT N   (Italy)

Author keywords

Case control study; Hepatic resection; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Locoregional treatment; Percutaneous ethanol injection

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERCUTANEOUS ETHANOL INJECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 0037215124     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200301000-00017     Document Type: Article

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