Long-Term Results of Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: An Update of the University of Padova Experience

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1892-1894

  Vitale, A ^a   Gringeri, E ^b   Valmasoni, M ^b   D'Amico, F ^b   Carraro, A ^b   Pauletto, A ^b   D'Amico, F J ^b   Polacco, M ^b   D'Amico, D F ^b   Cillo, U ^b  

^a VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; ITALY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547663436     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.05.031     Document Type: Article

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