Multifocal hepatocellular carcinoma: Intrahepatic metastasis or multicentric carcinogenesis?

Annals of Translational Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Feo, Francesco ^a   Pascale, Rosa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genomics; HCC recurrence; Multi omics profiling; Multifocal HCC; Proteomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015503675     PISSN: 23055839     EISSN: 23055847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2014.12.08     Document Type: Editorial

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