Identifying risk for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation: Implications for surveillance studies and new adjuvant therapies

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 956-965

  Chan, Edie Y ^a   Larson, Anne M ^b   Fix, Oren K ^b   Yeh, Matthew M ^c   Levy, Adam E ^b   Bakthavatsalam, Ramasamy ^b   Halldorson, Jeffrey B ^b   Reyes, Jorge D ^b   Perkins, James D ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 48949120247     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21449     Document Type: Article

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