Klatskin tumors and the accuracy of the Bismuth-Corlette classification

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1695-1699

  Paul, Andreas ^a   Kaiser, Gernot M ^a   Molmenti, Ernesto P ^a,b   Schroeder, Tobias ^a   Vernadakis, Spiridon ^a   Oezcelik, Arzu ^a   Baba, Hideo A ^a   Cicinnati, Vito R ^a   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISMUTH CORLETTE CLASSIFICATION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HUMAN; KLATSKIN TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; FEMALE; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KLATSKIN'S TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 83755183035     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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