Giant cavernous liver hemangiomas: Effect of operative approach on outcome

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 818-823

  Lerner, Susan M ^a   Hiatt, Jonathan R ^b   Salamandra, Johanna ^b   Chen, Pauline W ^b   Farmer, Douglas G ^b   Ghobrial, Rafik M ^b   Busuttil, Ronald W ^b   Stain, Steven C ^c   O'Connell, Theodore X ^c   Lim, Robert C ^c   Wagman, Lawrence D ^c   Ascher, Nancy L ^c   Stabile, Bruce E ^c   Hansen, Paul D ^c  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c David Geffen Sch of Med at UCLA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3843053533     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.8.818     Document Type: Article

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