Results of a surgical resection of pulmonary metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma: Prognostic impact of the preoperative serum alpha-fetoprotein level

Surgery Today

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 526-531

  Ohba, Taro ^a   Yano, Tokujiro ^a   Yoshida, Tsukihisa ^a   Kawano, Daigo ^b   Tsukamoto, Shuichi ^b   Shoji, Fumihiro ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Saitsu, Hideki ^b   Takeo, Sadanori ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha Fetoprotein; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Pulmonary metastasis; Surgical resection

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; METASTASIS RESECTION; MICROWAVE THERAPY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; WEDGE RESECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METASTASECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84863985210     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-011-0090-8     Document Type: Article

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