Applicability of the milan criteria for determining liver transplantation as a first-line treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1500-1510

  Morioka, Daisuke ^a,b   Tanaka, Kuniya ^a   Matsuo, Ken Ichi ^a   Takeda, Kazuhisa ^a   Ueda, Michio ^a   Sugita, Mitsutaka ^a   Nagano, Yasuhiko ^a   Endo, Itaru ^a   Sekido, Hitoshi ^a   Togo, Shinji ^a   Shimada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatectomy; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation; Milan criteria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MILAN CRITERIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33751007857     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-006-9204-8     Document Type: Article

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