Living donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: Tokyo University series

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 310-312

  Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Tamura, Sumihito ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Living donor liver transplantation; Selection criteria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER NODULE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35548934671     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106910     Document Type: Conference Paper

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