Primary hepatic neuroendocrine carcinoma coexisting with hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis C liver cirrhosis: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 214-218

  Ishida, Makoto ^a   Seki, Kenichiro ^a   Tatsuzawa, Atushi ^a   Katayama, Kanji ^a   Hirose, Kazuo ^a   Azuma, Takeshi ^a   Imamura, Yoshiaki ^a   Abraham, Ajit ^b   Yamaguchi, Akio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Liver tumor; Neuroendocrine carcinoma; Neuroendocrine differentiation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY HEPATIC NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CARCINOMA, NEUROENDOCRINE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY;

EID: 0037234732     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950300048     Document Type: Article

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