## Background Long-term survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after liver transplantation is affected mainly by recurrence of HCC. There is the opinion that the chance of recurrence after 2 years post-transplantation is remote, and therefore lifelong surveillance is not justified
Reduced exposure to calcineurin inhibitors early after liver transplantation prevents recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma
✍ Scribed by Rodríguez-Perálvarez, Manuel; Tsochatzis, Emmanuel; Naveas, María Carmen; Pieri, Giulia; García-Caparrós, Carmen; O’Beirne, James; Poyato-González, Antonio; Ferrín-Sánchez, Gustavo; Montero-Álvarez, Jose Luis; Patch, David; Thorburn, Douglas; Briceño, Javier; De la Mata, Manuel; Burroughs, Andrew Kenneth
- Book ID
- 123229815
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 691 KB
- Volume
- 59
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8278
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