Hepatobiliary malignancies - Primary hepatic malignant neoplasms

Citation
Ep. Molmenti et al., Hepatobiliary malignancies - Primary hepatic malignant neoplasms, SURG CL NA, 79(1), 1999, pp. 43
Citations number
32
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Medical Research Diagnosis & Treatment
Journal title
SURGICAL CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
ISSN journal
00396109 → ACNP
Volume
79
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Database
ISI
SICI code
0039-6109(199902)79:1<43:HM-PHM>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Primary hepatic tumors are epithelial, mesenchymal, or mixed in origin. Of these, epithelial tumors are Me most common and include hepatocellular carc inoma, cholangiocarcinoma, mixed hepatocholangiocarcinoma, hepatoblastoma, and a variety of more rare tumors. Hepatocellular carcinoma, also know as h epatoma or malignant hepatoma, is the most common, followed by cholangiocar cinoma, This article discusses these two malignancies.