Multifocal hepatocellular carcinoma in patients undergoing living-related liver transplantation

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 53, 2003, Pages 1617-1620

  Hirohashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Yamamoto, Takatsugu ^a   Shuto, Taichi ^a   Uenishi, Takahiro ^a   Ogawa, Masao ^a   Sakabe, Katsu ^a   Tanaka, Shogo ^a   Kanazawa, Akishige ^a   Tanaka, Hiromu ^a   Kubo, Shoji ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroaki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation; Living related liver transplantation; Milan criteria

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER NODULE; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CANCER; NUTRITION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 10744224526     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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