Review article: Percutaneous treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Supplement

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-110

  Gaiani, S ^a   Celli, N ^a   Cecilioni, L ^a   Piscaglia, F ^a   Bolondi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

CANCER SURGERY; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYOTHERAPY; DEATH; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BLEEDING;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; ETHANOL; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; INJECTIONS; LASER SURGERY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROWAVES; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 0038574058     PISSN: 09530673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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