Racial discrepancies in the outcome of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 992-996

  Harrison, Lawrence E ^a   Reichman, Trevor ^a   Koneru, Baburao ^a   Fisher, Adrian ^a   Wilson, Dorian ^a   Dela Torre, Andrew ^a   Samanta, Arun ^a   Korogodsky, Maria ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 4444309365     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.9.992     Document Type: Review

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