Hepatectomy vs. liver transplantation: A combination rather than a opposition

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 636-638

  Belghiti, Jacques ^a   Durand, François ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; COLON CANCER; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

EID: 34249060585     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21023     Document Type: Editorial

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