Hepatocellular carcinoma in the modern era: Transplantation, ablation, open surgery or minimally invasive surgery? -A multidisciplinary personalized decision

Chinese Clinical Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Konstantinidis, Ioannis T ^a   Fong, Yuman ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Curative treatment; Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); Liver transplantation; Minimally invasive approaches; Multiple treatments; Surgical resection; Tumor ablation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959934824     PISSN: 23043865     EISSN: 23043873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2304-3865.2013.07.03     Document Type: Review

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