While the prognosis for patients with untreated liver metastases from neuroendocrine primaries is rather good, they often suffer disabling symptoms due to syndromes of hormonal excess. Thirteen patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumours were treated by hepatic cryotherapy; seven patients were s
Cryotherapy for liver metastases
โ Scribed by A. Masters
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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