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Sarcopenia as a predictor of post-transplant tumor recurrence after living donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma beyond the Milan criteria
- Source :
- Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018), Scientific Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Nature Portfolio, 2018.
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Abstract
- To evaluate the association between sarcopenia and tumor recurrence after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we analyzed 92 males who underwent LDLT for treating HCC beyond the Milan criteria. Sarcopenia was defined when the height-normalized psoas muscle thickness was
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Sarcopenia
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Science
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Milan criteria
Gastroenterology
Disease-Free Survival
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Internal medicine
Carcinoma
medicine
Living Donors
Humans
Survival analysis
Proportional Hazards Models
Multidisciplinary
business.industry
Proportional hazards model
Hazard ratio
Liver Neoplasms
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
digestive system diseases
Liver Transplantation
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Medicine
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Female
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
business
Living donor liver transplantation
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dab92215e490fac67ce7873b99fcda39