Transplantation after Successful Downstaging by Multimodal Treatments of AJCC stage III B Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Portal Vein Thrombi: A Case Report

We reported such a case which received liver transplantation (LT) after successful consecutive downstaging therapies. A 40 year-old man with alcohol related liver cirrhosis and repeated esophageal varices bleeding had HCC with tumor thrombi in right main portal vein and the second portal branch of segment VI (stage IIIB).

Source: Transplantation Proceedings - March 19, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: K.-S. Jeng, C.-C. Huang, C.-S. Chung, C.-K. Lin, C.-J. Teng, P.-W. Shueng, K.-H. Chen Source Type: research