Therapeutic effects and prognostic factors in high-intensity focused ultrasound combined with chemoembolisation for larger hepatocellular carcinoma

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2513-2521

  Li, Chuanxing ^a   Zhang, Weidong ^a   Zhang, Rong ^a   Zhang, Liang ^a   Wu, Peihong ^a   Zhang, Fujun ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ablation; Hepatocellular carcinoma; High intensity focused ultrasound; Prognostic factors; Transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR THROMBUS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77955925949     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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