Liver transplantation for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma after aggressive neoadjuvant therapy: A new paradigm for liver and biliary malignancies?

Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 331-334

  Heimbach, Julie K ^a   Gores, Gregory J ^a   Nagorney, David M ^a   Rosen, Charles B ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747352697     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2006.01.010     Document Type: Review

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