Liver transplantation and incidentally found hepatocellular carcinoma in liver explants: Need for a new definition?

Transplantation

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 531-535

  Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a   Malagó, Massimo ^a   Molmenti, Ernesto P ^a   Nadalin, Silvio ^a   Radtke, Arnold ^a   Brokalaki, Eirini I ^a   Lang, Hauke ^a   Frilling, Andrea ^a   Baba, Hideo A ^a   Neuhäuser, Markus ^a   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Incidentally found tumor; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644612995     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000198739.42548.3e     Document Type: Article

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