Increasing time delay from presentation until surgical referral for hepatobiliary malignancies

HPB

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 644-648

  Croome, Kristopher P ^a,b,c   Chudzinski, Robyn ^a   Hanto, Douglas W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hepatobiliary; Referral; Time delay

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; THERAPY DELAY;

EID: 78349242915     PISSN: 1365182X     EISSN: 14772574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-2574.2010.00217.x     Document Type: Article

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