Strategy for the treatment of unresectable hepatoblastoma: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by delayed primary operation or liver transplantation

International Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-99

  Urata, Hisashi ^a   Hori, Hiroki ^a   Uchida, Keiichi ^a   Inoue, Mikihiro ^a   Komada, Yoshihiro ^a   Kusunoki, Masato ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delayed primary operation; Hepatoblastoma; Liver transplantation; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; IFOSFAMIDE; MELPHALAN; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

EID: 3142776184     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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