Inflammation-based scores and hepatocellular carcinoma: "faithful friends are hard to find"

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1527-1528

  Lai, Quirino ^a,b   Lerut, Jan ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEUTROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; PLATELET LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECURRENCE RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84912072319     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23989     Document Type: Letter

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