Consequences of needle tract seeding of hepatocellular cancer after liver transplant

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lopez, Kristi T ^a   Kuwada, Scott K ^a,b   Wong, Linda L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Hawaii Medical Center East   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver transplant; Needle tract seeding; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CISPLATIN; SORAFENIB; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEEDLE TRACT SEEDING; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUMOR SEEDING; TUMOR VOLUME;

LIVER TRANSPLANT; NEEDLE TRACT SEEDING; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM SEEDING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84881555652     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.12160     Document Type: Article

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