Laparoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Radiofrequency Ablation as a Bridge to Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Preliminary Results

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1179-1181

  Panaro, F ^a   Piardi, T ^a   Audet, M ^a   Gheza, F ^a   Woehl Jaegle, M L ^a   Portolani, N ^a   Cinqualbre, J ^a   Wolf, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LAPAROSCOPIC THERMOABLATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER NODULE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77952638690     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.03.091     Document Type: Article

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