A case of spontaneous regression of hepatocellular carcinoma with multiple lung metastases

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-142

  Kojima, Hiroyuki ^a   Tanigawa, Noboru ^a   Kariya, Shuji ^a   Komemushi, Atsushi ^a   Shomura, Yuzo ^a   Sawada, Satoshi ^a   Arai, Eitatsu ^b   Yokota, Yoshiro ^b  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nishinomiya Kyouritsu Neurosurgery Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Computed tomography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Phellinus linteus mycelium; Spontaneous regression

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; PLANT EXTRACT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MYCELIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REMISSION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; PHYTOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33645763650     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02493281     Document Type: Article

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