Treatment of hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: A single-institution experience with 25 cases

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1035-1039

  Cardinal, Jon ^a,b   De Vera, Michael E ^a,b   Marsh, James W ^a,b   Steel, Jennifer L ^a,c   Geller, David A ^a,b   Fontes, Paulo ^a,b   Nalesnik, Michael ^a,c   Gamblin, T Clark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; GEMCITABINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LIVER HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; NAUSEA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RARE DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72749117859     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.121     Document Type: Article

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