Does surgical resection have a role in the treatment of large or multinodular hepatocellular carcinoma?

American Surgeon

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1189-1197

  Ramacciato, Giovanni ^a   Mercantini, Paolo ^a   Petrucciani, Niccolò ^a   Ravaioli, Matteo ^b   Cucchetti, Alessandro ^b   Del Gaudio, Massimo ^b   Cescon, Matteo ^b   Ziparo, Vincenzo ^a   Pinna, Antonio Daniele ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAVA VEIN DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LARGE HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTINODULAR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651360980     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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