Microwave coagulation therapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 60, 2004, Pages 1784-1787

  Aramaki, Masanori ^a   Kawano, Katsunori ^a   Ohno, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sasaki, Atsushi ^a   Tahara, Koichiro ^a   Kai, Seiichiro ^a   Iwashita, Yukio ^a   Kitano, Seigo ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Microwave coagulation therapy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER FREE SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER NODULE; MALE; MICROWAVE COAGULATION THERAPY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RECURRENT CANCER; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINALLY ILL; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6344287214     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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