Successful liver transplantation in two cases of metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors [2]

Transplantation

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 283-284

  Cameron, Silke ^a   Ramadori, Giuliano ^a   Füzesi, Laszlo ^a   Sattler, Burkhart ^a   Gunawan, Bastian ^a   Müller, Dieter ^a   Ringe, Burkhardt ^a   Lorf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LETTER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH TUMOR; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23044484968     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000164141.34293.6B     Document Type: Letter

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