Multimodality therapy using brachytherapy for caval tumor of hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 54, Issue 77, 2007, Pages 1522-1525

  Ii, Noriko ^a,c   Yamakado, Koichiro ^a   Shouji, Kazufusa ^b   Nomoto, Yoshihito ^a   Nakatsuka, Atsuhiro ^a   Nomura, Miwako ^a   Yamashita, Yasufumi ^a   Takaki, Haruyuki ^a   Akeboshi, Masao ^a   Senga, Masayo ^a   Shiraki, Katsuya ^a   Takeda, Kan ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caval tumor; Endovascular brachytherapy; Hepatocellular carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 34547646509     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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