Clinical features and natural history of portal vein thrombosis after radiofrequency ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma in Japan

Hepatology International

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1030-1039

  Shimada, Taro ^a   Maruyama, Hitoshi ^a   Kondo, Takayuki ^a   Sekimoto, Tadashi ^a   Takahashi, Masanori ^a   Motoyama, Tenyu ^a   Ogasawara, Sadahisa ^a   Suzuki, Eiichiro ^a   Ooka, Yoshihiko ^a   Tawada, Akinobu ^a   Chiba, Tetsuhiro ^a   Kanai, Fumihiko ^a   Okabe, Shinichiro ^a   Yoshikawa, Masaharu ^a   Yokosuka, Osamu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Portal vein thrombosis; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BODY MASS; CANCER GROWTH; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECANALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH VARICES BLEEDING; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84890548420     PISSN: 19360533     EISSN: 19360541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12072-013-9470-z     Document Type: Article

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