Resection or transplantation for early hepatocellular carcinoma in a cirrhotic liver: Does size define the best oncological strategy?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 256, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 883-891

  Adam, Rene ^a,b,c   Bhangui, Prashant ^a   Vibert, Eric ^a,b,c   Azoulay, Daniel ^a,b,d   Pelletier, Gilles ^a   Duclos Vallée, Jean Charles ^a,b,c   Samuel, Didier ^a,b,c   Guettier, Catherine ^a   Castaing, Denis ^a,b,c  

^a HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

curative strategy; intention to treat analysis; overall survival; prognostic factors; recurrence free survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84870063153     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318273bad0     Document Type: Article

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