Mortality risk after liver transplantation in hepatocellular carcinoma recipients: A nonlinear predictive model

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 889-897

  Zhang, Ming ^a   Yin, Fei ^b   Chen, Bo ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Li, You Ping ^a   Yan, Lu Nan ^a   Wen, Tian Fu ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; SODIUM;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTRON; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862783835     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.12.034     Document Type: Article

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