Expansion of selection criteria for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in living donor liver transplantation. |
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| Authors: | Takashi Ito Yasutsugu Takada Mikiko Ueda Hironori Haga Yoji Maetani Fumitaka Oike Kohei Ogawa Seisuke Sakamoto Yasuhiro Ogura Hiroto Egawa Koichi Tanaka Shinji Uemoto |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | In the present study, the results of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for 125 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients were analyzed to determine optimal criteria exceeding the Milan criteria (MC) but still with predictably good outcomes. On the basis of pretransplant imaging studies, 70 patients met the MC, and 55 patients did not. Patients who exceeded the MC but presented with
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