Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: Further considerations on selection criteria

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1195-1202

  Ravaioli, Matteo ^a   Ercolani, Giorgio ^a   Cescon, Matteo ^a   Vetrone, Gaetano ^a   Voci, Claudio ^b   Grigioni, Walter Franco ^b   D'Errico, Antonia ^b   Ballardini, Giorgio ^a   Cavallari, Antonino ^a   Grazi, Gian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR SYSTEM; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 4544378286     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20239     Document Type: Review

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