During a I 6-month period in I99 I -1992, blood samples and questionnaire data were obtained from 65 incident cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as well as from 2 control groups of hospitalized patients matched on gender and age, which included 65 metastatic liver cancer (MLC) patients and 65 p
The role of infection by opisthorchis viverrini, hepatitis B virus, and aflatoxin exposure in the etiology of liver cancer in thailand. A correlation study
β Scribed by Petcharin Srivatanakul; D. Maxwell Parkin; Yuan-Zhou Jiang; Myriam Khlat; U-Thai Kao-Ian; Sineenat Sontipong; Christopher Wild
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 725 KB
- Volume
- 68
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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