## Background: Vinyl chloride (vc) is a known animal and human carcinogen that is associated with liver angiosarcoma and most likely also with hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) in humans. ## Methods: The authors examined the presence of p53 gene mutations in 18 hcc specimens from patients with known
Primary hepatocellular carcinoma in workers exposed to vinyl chloride : A report of two cases
✍ Scribed by Jean-C. Saurin; Philippe Tanière; François Mion; Philippe Jacob; Christian Partensky; Pierre Paliard; Françoise Berger
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 615 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
angiosarcoma in humans. The aim of this study was to describe histopathologic Franc ¸ois Mion, M.D. 1
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