A case of well-differentiated minute hepatocellular carcinoma with extrahepatic metastasis

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 892-896

  Kim, Soo Ryang ^a   Hayashi, Yoshitake ^b   Matsuoka, Toshiyuki ^c   Park, Sok Yong ^a   Shintani, Shigeyuki ^a   Sasaki, Kazunori ^a   Asano, Jun ^a   Kim, Jung Hyo ^a   Kim, Ke Hi ^a   Imoto, Susumu ^a   Itoh, Hiroshi ^b   Kudo, Masatoshi ^d  

^a KOBE ASAHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distant metastasis; Ultrasonography; Well differentiated minute hepatocellular carcinoma; fetoprotein mRNA

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM;

EID: 15144351730     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1998.tb00757.x     Document Type: Article

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