Survival of cirrhotic patients with early hepatocellular carcinoma treated by percutaneous ethanol injection or liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1355-1363

  Andriulli, Angelo ^a   de Sio, Ilario ^b   Solmi, Luigi ^c   De Carlis, Luciano ^d   Troisi, Roberto ^e   Grasso, Alessandro ^f   Festa, Virginia ^a   Caturelli, Eugenio ^a   Giacomoni, Alessandro ^d   Del Vecchio Blanco, Camillo ^b   De Hemptinne, Bernard ^e   Burroughs, Andrew ^f   Perri, Francesco ^a  

^a CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b FEDERICO II UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8844256578     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20251     Document Type: Article

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