Growth rate of locally recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization: Comparing the growth rate of locally recurrent tumor with that of primary hepatocellular carcinoma

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 783-788

  Tezuka, Mikio ^a   Hayashi, Keiji ^b   Kubota, Kazunori ^b   Sekine, Sachiko ^a   Okada, Yoichi ^c   Ina, Hiroyasu ^a   Irie, Tetsuya ^a  

^a Nakano General Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Toshima Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Growth rate; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Local recurrence; Screening

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BROMHEXINE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 33847205057     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9537-y     Document Type: Review

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