Growth rates of pulmonary metastases after liver transplantation for unresectable colorectal liver metastases.
CONCLUSION: Patients treated by LT for unresectable CLM have a good prognosis following resection of pulmonary metastases. Doubling time did not appear to be worse with the immunosuppression used after LT.
PMID: 29168565 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Grut H, Solberg S, Seierstad T, Revheim ME, Egge TS, Larsen SG, Line PD, Dueland S Tags: Br J Surg Source Type: research
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