Diagnosis and staging of hepatocellular carcinoma prior to transplantation: Expertise or failure

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1445-1447

  Varela, Maria ^a   Forner, Alejandro ^a   Bruix, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL;

ADVANCED CANCER; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 33750129327     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20909     Document Type: Editorial

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