Survival advantage of radiofrequency ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma: Comparison with ethanol injection

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 60, Issue 126, 2013, Pages 1399-1404

  Oeda, Satoshi ^a   Mizuta, Toshihiko ^a   Isoda, Hiroshi ^a   Kuwashiro, Takuya ^a   Iwane, Shinji ^a   Takahashi, Hirokazu ^a   Kawaguchi, Yasunori ^a   Eguchi, Yuichiro ^a   Ozaki, Iwata ^a   Tanaka, Keitaro ^b   Fujimoto, Kazuma ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Percutaneous ethanol injection; Radiofrequency ablation; Survival prognosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS ETHANOL INJECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84884326130     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5754/hge121270     Document Type: Article

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