Hepatoblastoma in children

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 318-321

  Abbasoglu L ^a,b   Gun F ^a   Tansu Salman, F ^a   Celik A ^a   Sarac F ^a   Unuvar A ^a   Gorgun O ^a   Aksoyek S ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Hepatoblastoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 3142714360     PISSN: 00015458     EISSN: 25770160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015458.2004.11679562     Document Type: Article

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