Hepatic Angiosarcoma May Have Fair Survival Nowadays
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Hepatic Angiosarcoma May Have Fair Survival Nowadays
Hepatic angiosarcoma (HAS) is rare but often fatal. A review of literature in 1979 found that only 3% of the 70 patients lived for more than 2 years, but the survival might have been improved over the years. We conducted a retrospective study and reviewed the medical records of patients who visited a teaching hospital in Taiwan from January 2000 to August 2010 and had pathological proof of HAS....
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0025-7974
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000000816