Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients Exceeding the UCSF Criteria

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3185-3188

  Fouzas, I ^a,c   Sotiropoulos, G C ^a,b   Lang, H ^a,b   Nadalin, S ^a   Beckebaum, S ^a   Sgourakis, G ^a   Saner, F H ^a   Radtke, A ^a   Papanikolaou, V ^c   Baba, H A ^a   Paul, A ^a   Broelsch, C E ^a   Malago M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55749085428     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.08.036     Document Type: Article

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