Surgical Resection Versus Local Ablation for HCC on Cirrhosis: Results from a Propensity Case-Matched Study

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 301-311

  Ruzzenente, Andrea ^a,b   Guglielmi, Alfredo ^a   Sandri, Marco ^a   Campagnaro, Tommaso ^a   Valdegamberi, Alessandro ^a   Conci, Simone ^a   Bagante, Fabio ^a   Turcato, Gianni ^a   D'Onofrio, Mirko ^b   Iacono, Calogero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver cirrhosis; Local ablative therapies; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856219584     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-011-1745-x     Document Type: Article

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