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Is the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma on the waiting list necessary?

✍ Scribed by Pietro Majno; Riccardo Lencioni; Françoise Mornex; Nicolas Girard; Ronnie T. Poon; Daniel Cherqui

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
135 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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✦ Synopsis

To summarize our knowledge of the history of HCC in patients on the waiting list.

• To summarize our knowledge of different management strategies that can be implemented.

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