Clinical, Epidemiological and Histopathological Aspects in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Undergoing Liver Transplantation

Conclusions: There is predominance of
male patients with a mean age of 58.3 years. Degree ≤ II is the most frequent to the Edmondson-Steiner histological
classification in the evaluated casuistic. HCV, ALD and NAFLD is the most common etiological agents found in the
study. The (high) underestimated prevalence of NAFLD in the pre-transplanted patients is due to the fact that all patients
presented cirrhosis, masking NAFLD signals.
PMID: 30360608 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention - October 28, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Asian Pac J Cancer Prev Source Type: research