Comparison Between Human-Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase mRNA and α-Fetoprotein mRNA as a Predictive Value for Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3636-3639

  Oya, H ^a   Sato, Y ^a   Yamamoto, S ^a   Nakatsuka, H ^a   Kobayashi, T ^a   Hara, Y ^a   Waguri, N ^a   Suda, T ^a   Aoyagi, Y ^a   Hatakeyama, K ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, MESSENGER; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TELOMERASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845444000     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.10.172     Document Type: Article

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