Appraisal of hepatic resection in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma with severe thrombocytopenia

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1077-1081

  Sugimachi, Keishi ^a,b   Ikeda, Yasuharu ^a   Tomikawa, Morimasa ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^b   Tsukamoto, Shuichi ^a   Kawasaki, Katsumi ^a   Yamamura, Shinji ^a   Korenaga, Daisuke ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^b   Takenaka, Kenji ^a  

^a Fukuoka City Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43949139237     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9442-3     Document Type: Article

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