Should the selection of children with hepatocellular carcinoma be based on Milan criteria?

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-3

  Otte, Jean Bernard ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C MET GENE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME ARM; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NODULE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MILAN CRITERIA; RATING SCALE; RECURRENCE RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37849053306     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00852.x     Document Type: Editorial

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