Hepatocellular carcinoma in two patients with cardiac cirrhosis

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 889-891

  Saliba, Teddy ^a   Dorkhom, Stephan ^b   O'reilly, Eileen M ^c   Ludwig, Emmy ^c   Gansukh, Bolorsukh ^c   Abou Alfa, Ghassan K ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac cirrhosis; Fontan procedure; hepatocellular carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; SORAFENIB;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EDEMA; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CIRRHOSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEART HYPOPLASIA; SPLENOMEGALY; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; VARICOSIS; VENOUS CONGESTION; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FATALITY; FIBROSIS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 77953973424     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e32832e2bec     Document Type: Article

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