Survival following liver transplantation for liver-only colorectal metastases compared with hepatocellular carcinoma.
CONCLUSION: The low-risk group of patients with colorectal cancer and unresectable liver-only disease had a 5-year OS rate following liver transplantation similar to that of patients with HCC with lesions within the Milan criteria.
PMID: 29532908 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Dueland S, Foss A, Solheim JM, Hagness M, Line PD Tags: Br J Surg Source Type: research
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