Nature and outcomes of the increased incidence of colorectal malignancy after liver transplantation in Australasia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 199, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 610-612

  Verran, Deborah J ^a   Mulhearn, Marie H ^a   Dilworth, Pamela J ^a   Balderson, Glenda A ^b   Munn, Stephen ^c   Chen, John W ^d   Fink, Michael A ^e   Crawford, Michael D ^a   McCaughan, Geoffrey W ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; REGISTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887349262     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja13.10102     Document Type: Article

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