Surgical resection of a solitary liver metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A case report

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases International

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 610-612

  Delis, Spiros ^a   Biliatis, Ioannis ^a   Bourli, Antonia ^a   Kapranos, Nikolaos ^b   Dervenis, Christos ^a  

^a AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b MITERA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hepatic resection; Liver metastasis; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; PACLITAXEL;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHARYNGOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CARCINOMA; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751231061     PISSN: 14993872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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