Perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: A much needed but imperfect new staging system

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 252-253

  Nagino, Masato ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PERIHILAR CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 79955666959     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2011.67     Document Type: Short Survey

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