Editorial: Radiofrequency ablation leads to excellent local tumor control and durable longterm survival in specific subsets of early stage HCC patients confirming to the Milan criteria

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 913-914

  Curley, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; ELECTRODE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; NEEDLE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SOLID TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; CATHETER ABLATION; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650080937     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182034862     Document Type: Editorial

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