Hepatic haemangiomas: Possible association with female sex hormones

Gut

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1352-1355

  Glinkova, V ^b   Shevah, O ^b   Boaz, M ^b   Levine, A ^b   Shirin, H ^a  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 4344674641     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2003.038646     Document Type: Article

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