Multimodal approach to liver neoplasm in elderly patients. A single center experience
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Introduction Surgical therapy remains the gold standard for treatment of liver neoplasms. In the last 20 years we assisted to an increase of survival in patients with a diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to screening programs, and a multimodal therapeutical approach. In the last years it was an increase of elderly patients with HCC cause of the increase of infection of HCV and an increase of geriatric patients; together with HCC, hepatic metastases represent the main topics of our investigation.
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دوره 9 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2009