Liver transplantation is proposed as the best therapy for early hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients. However, the confrontation with the results obtained by surgical resection has never been done on an intention-to-treat basis. Between 1989 and 1997, 164 out of 1,265 patients with hepatoc
Is surgical resection still the treatment of choice for early hepatocellular carcinoma?
โ Scribed by Kelly W. Burak; Oliver F. Bathe
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Volume
- 104
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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