Favorable Surgical Outcomes in Patients with Early Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 239, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 395-399

  Yamamoto, Masakazu ^a   Takasaki, Ken ^a   Otsubo, Takehito ^a   Katsuragawa, Hideo ^a   Katagiri, Satoshi ^a   Yoshitoshi, Kenji ^a   Ariizumi, Shunichi ^a   Saito, Akiko ^a   Nakano, Masayuki ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1242296351     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000114215.03112.e0     Document Type: Article

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