Biphenotypic liver malignancy: A role for liver transplantation?
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Liver transplantation for malignancy.
Liver transplantation for hepatic malignancies has emerged from an exotic and desperate approach to a well-documented and proven treatment modality for these unfortunate patients. However, early unsatisfactory results emphasized that only a highly selected patient population would benefit from transplantation. Currently, <10% of all liver transplants performed are for hepatocellular cancer (HCC...
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عنوان ژورنال: HPB
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1365-182X
DOI: 10.1016/j.hpb.2016.02.214