ALPPS Procedure for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease: Revealing a Terra Incognita

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 266, Issue 6, 2017, Pages e106-e107

  Moris, Demetrios ^a   Dimitroulis, Dimitrios ^b   Papalampros, Alexandros ^b   Petrou, Athanasios ^b   Felekouras, Evangelos ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ALPPS PROCEDURE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; HEPATIC PORTAL VEIN; LIGATION; LIVER TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PORTAL VEIN;

EID: 84978634551     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001890     Document Type: Letter

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