Changes in staging for hepatocellular carcinoma after radiofrequency ablation prior to liver transplantation as found in the explanted liver

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 58, Issue 112, 2011, Pages 2029-2031

  Schroeder, Tobias ^a   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a   Molmenti, Ernesto P ^a,b   Kuehl, Hilmar ^a   Cicinnati, Vito R ^a   Schmitz, Klaus J ^a   Kob́ori, Laśzló ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a   Mathé, Zoltan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridging treatments; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation; Radiofrequency ablation; RFA; Tumor staging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPLANT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NODULE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THERAPY EFFECT; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 84857680422     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.57S4/hge10601     Document Type: Article

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