Surgical resection in hepatocellular carcinoma patients with minimal background fibrosis: A strategy in the era of organ shortage

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2043-2048

  Groeschl, Ryan T ^a   Clark Gamblin, T ^a   Turaga, Kiran K ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTENDED LIVER RESECTION; FEMALE; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODAL CHEMOTHERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEGMENTAL LIVER RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84878220099     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2857-6     Document Type: Article

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