Dissecting EASL/AASLD recommendations with a more careful knife: A comment on "surgical misinterpretation" of the BCLC staging system

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 262, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e17-e18

  Mazzaferro, Vincenzo ^a   Roayaie, Sasan ^b   Poon, Ronnie ^c   Majno, Pietro E ^d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURVIVAL RATE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84938066517     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000398     Document Type: Letter

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