Prognostic significance of preoperative imaging in recipients of living donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma

Transplantation

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 570-574

  Sugimachi, Keishi ^a   Shirabe, Ken ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Iguchi, Tomohiro ^a   Takeishi, Kazuki ^a   Toshima, Takeo ^a   Aishima, Shinichi ^a   Tajima, Tsuyoshi ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Imaging; Living donor liver transplantation; Milan criteria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952137204     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318208134e     Document Type: Article

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