Field-practice study of sorafenib therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: A prospective multicenter study in Italy

Hepatology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2055-2063

  Iavarone, Massimo ^a   Cabibbo, Giuseppe ^b   Piscaglia, Fabio ^c   Zavaglia, Claudio ^d   Grieco, Antonio ^e   Villa, Erica ^f   Cammà, Calogero ^b   Colombo, Massimo ^a   Sangiovanni, Angelo ^g   Vavassori, Sara ^g   Romeo, Raffaella ^g   Di Marco, Vito ^g   Craxì, Antonio ^g   Borghi, Alberto ^g   Granito, Alessandro ^g   Bolondi, Luigi ^g   Airoldi, Aldo ^g   Pinzello, Giovambattista ^g   Biolato, Marco ^g   Racco, Simona ^g   Pompili, Maurizio ^g   Lei, Barbara ^g   De Maria, Nicola ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; SORAFENIB;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ANUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLEEDING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; JAUNDICE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 82455162643     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.24644     Document Type: Article

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