Percutaneous ethanol injection for hepatocellular carcinoma: Alive or dead?

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 377-380

  Lencioni, Riccardo ^a   Llovet, Josep M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; ETHANOL; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 23444458554     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2005.06.001     Document Type: Editorial

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