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Percutaneous ethanol injection for patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma

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Primary Liver Cancer in Japan

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) arises in patients with chronic liver diseases, particularly in those with liver cirrhosis, at a rate of more than 80% in Japan [1, 2]. Because of periodic examinations with ultrasonography (US) [3, 4] and serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) measurement [5, 6] in high-risk patients with liver cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis, a large number of small HCC, often smaller than 2cm, have been diagnosed during follow-up of such patients.

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  1. First Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, 280, Japan

    Masaaki Ebara, Kazuhiko Kita, Masaharu Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki Sugiura & Masao Ohto

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  1. 1st Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54-Shogoin Kawara-cho, 606, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Takayoshi Tobe M. D. (Chairman and Professor) (Chairman and Professor)

  2. The First Department of Internal Medicine, Jikei University School of Medicine, 105, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Haruo Kameda

  3. Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, 228, Sagamihara, Japan

    Masahiko Okudaira

  4. First Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Chiba University, 280, Chiba, Japan

    Masao Ohto

  5. Sanraku Hospital, 2-5 Kanda Surugadai, 101, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuo Endo

  6. The Second Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical College, Nishikagura 4-5, 078, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

    Michio Mito

  7. The First Department of Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, 663, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

    Eizo Okamoto

  8. Second Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, 830, Kurume, Japan

    Kyuichi Tanikawa

  9. First Department of Pathology, Kurume University School of Medicine, 830, Fukuoka, Japan

    Masamichi Kojiro

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Ebara, M., Kita, K., Yoshikawa, M., Sugiura, N., Ohto, M. (1992). Percutaneous ethanol injection for patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma. In: Tobe, T., et al. Primary Liver Cancer in Japan. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68177-9_28

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