Patients with non-[ 18F]fludeoxyglucose-avid advanced hepatocellular carcinoma on clinical staging may achieve long-term recurrence-free survival after liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-61

  Kornberg, Arno ^a,b   Küpper, Bernadett ^c   Tannapfel, Andrea ^d   Büchler, Peter ^a   Krause, Babette ^b   Witt, Ulrike ^a   Gottschild, Dietmar ^b   Friess, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Department of Surgery   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84255198523     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22416     Document Type: Article

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