Surgery for malignant liver tumors

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 154-160

  Shukla, Parul J ^a   Barreto, Savio G ^b  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Metastasis; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLAMP; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER PARENCHYMA TRANSECTION; LIVER RESECTION; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSION; PEDICLE CLAMP; PORTAL VEIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70350327402     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.57119     Document Type: Review

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