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Determination of the Clonal Origin of Multiple Human Hepatocellular Carcinomas by Cloning and Polymerase Chain Reaction of the Integrated Hepatitis B Virus Dna
1 May 1999
Abstract excerpt
The poor prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is partly the result of the high rate of recurrence that is caused either by intrahepatic metastasis (IM) or independent multicentric occurrence (MO). For convenience, discrimination of IM and MO is based on pathological findings, but reliable parameters are not sufficiently established. In the case of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated HCC, molecular...
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