Technical tricks for radical but conservative liver resection: The ultrasound guidance

Minerva Chirurgica

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 159-165

  Torzilli, G ^a   Palmisano, A ^a   Del Fabbro, D ^a   Donadon, M ^a   Montorsi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced intraoperative ultrasonography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Intraoperative ultrasonography; Liver cirrhosis; Liver neoplasms; Liver neoplasms, secondary; Liver surgery; Metastases

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH;

HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33745415168     PISSN: 00264733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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