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Is tumor biopsy necessary?

✍ Scribed by Beat Müllhaupt; Francois Durand; Tanja Roskams; Philipp Dutkowski; Markus Heim

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
136 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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✦ Synopsis

The diagnosis of a malignant tumor usually requires histological confirmation before a curative or palliative treatment is considered. Recent guidelines published by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) have challenged this paradigm for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with cirrhosis. The currently proposed algorithm for patients with liver cirrhosis is as follows 2 :

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