Inclusion of tumor markers improves the correlation of the milan criteria with vascular invasion and tumor cell Differentiation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing liver resection (#JGSU-D-07-00462)

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 858-866

  Hasegawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Imamura, Hiroshi ^a   Ijichi, Masayoshi ^a,b   Matsuyama, Yutaka ^a   Sano, Keiji ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Social Insurance Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha fetoprotein; Des carboxy prothrombin; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation; Milan criteria; Tumor differentiation; Vascular invasion

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DECARBOXYPROTHROMBIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTHROMBIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BLOOD; CANCER INVASION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; LIVER VEIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BILE DUCTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PORTAL VEIN; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTHROMBIN; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 42449090636     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-007-0464-9     Document Type: Article

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