Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: Single nodule with Child-Pugh class A sized less than 3 cm

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 320-328

  Moon, Deok Bog ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a   Hwang, Shin ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Barcelona Liver Cancer stage A; Child A; Hepatectomy; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 35548972563     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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