Indeterminate 1-2-cm nodules found on hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance: Biopsy for all, some, or none?

Hepatology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2048-2054

  Khalili, Korosh ^a   Kyoung Kim, Tae ^a   Jang, Hyun Jung ^a   Kochak Yazdi, Leyla ^a   Guindi, Maha ^a   Sherman, Morris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR BIOPSY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82455212911     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.24638     Document Type: Article

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