How to decide about liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: Size and number of lesions or response to TACE?

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 279-284

  Otto, Gerd ^a   Schuchmann, Marcus ^a   Hoppe Lotichius, Maria ^a   Heise, Michael ^a   Weinmann, Arndt ^a   Hansen, Torsten ^a   Pitton, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Minimal progression Recurrence; Patient selection; Response to TACE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANY PROGRESSION; AP; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; AUC; COMPLETE RESPONSE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CR; CT; EXCEEDING THE MILAN CRITERIA; HCC; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LT; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MC; MCIN; MCOUT; MEETING THE MILAN CRITERIA; MILAN CRITERIA; MINIMAL PROGRESSION; MTOR; NEW LESIONS; NL; PARTIAL RESPONSE; PATIENT SELECTION; PD; PR; PROGRESSIVE DISEASE; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTIC; RECIST; RECURRENCE; RESPONSE EVALUATION CRITERIA IN SOLID TUMOURS; RESPONSE TO TACE; ROC; SD; STABLE DISEASE; TACE; TRANSARTERIAL CHEMOEMBOLISATION; UICC; UNION INTERNATIONALE CONTRE LE CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84880320517     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2013.04.006     Document Type: Article

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