Mortality and morbidity of hepatectomy, radiofrequency ablation, and embolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: A national survey of 54,145 patients

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1125-1133

  Sato, Masaya ^a   Tateishi, Ryosuke ^a   Yasunaga, Hideo ^a   Horiguchi, Hiromasa ^a   Yoshida, Haruhiko ^a   Matsuda, Shinya ^b   Koike, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hospital volume; Liver tumor; Nationwide database

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTENDED LOBECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEAT BURN; HUMAN; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER INFARCTION; LOBECTOMY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RUPTURED SUTURE; SEGMENTECTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866349859     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-012-0569-0     Document Type: Article

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