Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis: Is clinical tumor classification before transplantation realistic?

Transplantation

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 483-487

  Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a   Malagó, Massimo ^a   Molmenti, Ernesto ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a   Nadalin, Silvio ^a   Brokalaki, Eirini ^a   Kühl, Hilmar ^a   Dirsch, Olaf ^a   Lang, Hauke ^a   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation; Tumor staging

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DONOR; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 20044381681     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000152801.82734.74     Document Type: Article

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