The changing scenario of hepatocellular carcinoma over the last two decades in Italy

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 397-405

  Santi, Valentina ^a   Buccione, Daniela ^a   Di Micoli, Antonio ^a   Fatti, Gianluca ^a   Frigerio, Marta ^a   Farinati, Fabio ^b   Del Poggio, Paolo ^c   Rapaccini, Gianludovico ^d   Di Nolfo, Maria Anna ^e   Benvegn, Luisa ^b   Zoli, Marco ^f   Borzio, Franco ^g   Giannini, Edoardo Giovanni ^h   Caturelli, Eugenio ⁱ   Chiaramonte, Maria ^j   Bernardi, Mauro ^a   Trevisani, Franco ^a  

^a Semeiotica Medica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c TREVIGLIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e BOLOGNINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^g FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

ⁱ BELCOLLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Epidemiology; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Surveillance; Survival; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR ABLATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84855981361     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2011.05.026     Document Type: Article

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