Analysis of risk factors for tumor recurrence after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: Key role of immunosuppression

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 497-503

  Vivarelli, Marco ^a,c   Cucchetti, Alessandro ^a   Piscaglia, Fabio ^b   La Barba, Giuliano ^a   Bolondi, Luigi ^b   Cavallari, Antonino ^a   Pinna, Antonio Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Dipto di Discipline Chirurgiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CYCLOSPORINE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 18944365009     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20391     Document Type: Article

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