Compensatory enlargement of the liver after treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma with carbon ion radiotherapy - Relation to prognosis and liver function

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 236-242

  Imada, Hiroshi ^a,b   Kato, Hirotoshi ^a   Yasuda, Shigeo ^a   Yamada, Shigeru ^a   Yanagi, Takeshi ^a   Hara, Ryusuke ^a   Kishimoto, Riwa ^a   Kandatsu, Susumu ^a   Minohara, Shinichi ^a   Mizoe, Jun Etsu ^a   Kamada, Tadashi ^a   Yokosuka, Osamu ^b   Tsujii, Hirohiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon ion; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver function; Liver volume; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; ION THERAPY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; IONS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77955713137     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.03.025     Document Type: Article

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