Surgical treatment of hepatic haemangiomas: A 15-year experience

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 792-795

  Gourgiotis, Stavros ^a   Moustafellos, Panagiotis ^b   Zavos, Apostolos ^c   Dimopoulos, Nikitas ^b   Vericouki, Christina ^d   Hadjiyannakis, Evangelos I ^b  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^d GENERAL HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hepatic haemangioma; Hepatic resection; Indication; Rupture; Surgical management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER ARTERIOGRAPHY; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LOBECTOMY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SAFETY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR BLEEDING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747122251     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2006.03869.x     Document Type: Article

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