Spontaneous regression of multiple pulmonary recurrences of hepatocellular carcinoma after hepatectomy: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 475-478

  Harimoto, Norifumi ^a   Shirabe, Ken ^b   Kajiyama, Kiyoshi ^a   Gion, Tomonobu ^a   Takenaka, Masaru ^a   Nagaie, Takashi ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^b  

^a ASO IIZUKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatectomy; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Lung metastasis; Spontaneous regression

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BILIRUBIN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; INDOCYANINE GREEN;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; POSTERIOR SEGMENTECTOMY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 84863446935     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-011-0030-7     Document Type: Review

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