Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: A proposed new grading system for the ablative margin and prediction of local tumor progression and its validation

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1418-1426

  Nishikawa, Hiroki ^a   Inuzuka, Tadashi ^a   Takeda, Haruhiko ^a   Nakajima, Jun ^a   Sakamoto, Azusa ^a   Henmi, Sinichiro ^a   Matsuda, Fumihiro ^a   Eso, Yuji ^a   Ishikawa, Tetsuro ^a   Saito, Sumio ^a   Kita, Ryuichi ^a   Kimura, Toru ^a   Osaki, Yukio ^a  

^a OSAKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grading; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Local tumor progression; Radiofrequency thermal ablation; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

DECARBOXYPROTHROMBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTHROMBIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84655163503     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-011-0452-4     Document Type: Article

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