Is there any benefit from expanding the criteria for the resection of hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic liver? Experience from a developing country

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1657-1665

  Galun, Danijel A ^a   Bulajic, Predrag ^a   Zuvela, Marinko ^a   Basaric, Dragan ^a   Ille, Tatjana ^b   Milicevic, Miroslav N ^a,b  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SERBIA; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIO WAVES; SERBIA;

EID: 84864277282     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-012-1544-x     Document Type: Article

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