Liver allocation for HCC: A moving target

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-51

  Freeman, Richard B ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2442660570     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20027     Document Type: Editorial

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