Prospective study on the outcome of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma registered for living donor liver transplantation: How long can they wait?

Transplantation

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 650-654

  Mizuno, Shugo ^a   Yokoi, Hajime ^a   Shiraki, Katsuya ^a   Usui, Masanobu ^a   Sakurai, Hiroyuki ^a   Tabata, Masami ^a   Sugimoto, Kazushi ^a   Takei, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yamakado, Koichiro ^a   Takeda, Kan ^a   Uemoto, Shinji ^a,b   Isaji, Shuji ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Living donor liver transplantation; Natural history of HCC

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77949899025     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181cd4ae9     Document Type: Article

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