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| Survivals after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: Granular data for a better allocation process? |
| Quirino Lai *, Massimo Rossi |
Hepato-bilio-pancreatic and Liver Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
∗Corresponding author.
E-mail address: quirino.lai@uniroma1.it (Q. Lai) |
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Abstract A large international study has been recently published focusing on the combination of morphological aspects and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) as predictors of survival in patients with hepatocellular cancer (HCC) treated with liver transplantation (LT) [1] . As a matter of fact, morphology and biology represent the two sides of the same coin, namely tumor aggressiveness. Several studies already investigated the combinatory role of morphology and biology [2–4] . The great merit of this study is that a “user-friendly” calculator has been developed starting from the results of the analysis: such a calculator is available at the webpage http://www. hcc- olt- metroticket.org/ .
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2018, Vol. 17 
