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| Bilateral lung transplantation, a new option for pulmonary metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma? |
| Zi-Tao Wang a , Jing-Yu Chen a , b , ∗ |
a Department of Thoracic Surgery, Wuxi Lung Transplant Center, Wuxi People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214023, China
b Department of Lung Transplant, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China
∗ Corresponding author at: Wuxi People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Wuxi Lung Transplant Center, Wuxi 214023, China.
E-mail address: Chenjy@wuxiph.com (J.-Y. Chen).
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Abstract The lung is the most frequent site of extrahepatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence after liver transplantation (LT). Pulmonary metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma (PM-HCC) carries a poor prognosis as the patient could finally die of pulmonary failure secondary to the tumor despite maintaining ideal liver function.
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2023, Vol. 22 
