Meta-analysis of anatomic resection versus non-anatomic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: Are they comparing apples with oranges?

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-142

  Bigonzi, Eleonora ^a   Cucchetti, Alessandro ^a   Pinna, Antonio Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC RESECTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER SURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE;

EID: 82455208858     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-011-0816-5     Document Type: Letter

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