Conundrum of treatment for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma: Radiofrequency ablation instead of liver transplantation as the first-line treatment?

EASL–EORTC Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of hepatocellular carcinoma

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Donor Factors Similarly Impact Survival Outcome After Liver Transplantation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Non-hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients

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Systematic review of efficacy and outcomes of salvage liver transplantation after primary hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma

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Identification of liver transplant candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma and a very low dropout risk: Implications for the current organ allocation policy

(2013) Neil Mehta et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Risk factors for exceeding the Milan criteria after successful radiofrequency ablation in patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma

(2013) Kaoru Tsuchiya et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

A randomized controlled trial of radiofrequency ablation and surgical resection in the treatment of small hepatocellular carcinoma

(2012) Kai Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Increasing disparity in waitlist mortality rates with increased model for end-stage liver disease scores for candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma versus candidates without hepatocellular carcinoma

(2012) David Goldberg et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

MELD Exceptions and Rates of Waiting List Outcomes

(2011) A. B. Massie et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION

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Salvage liver transplantation for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma after radiofrequency ablation: A new strategy?

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Survival after radiofrequency ablation and salvage transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and Child-Pugh A cirrhosis

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(2011) Pierre-Alain Clavien et al.   LANCET ONCOLOGY

Does a patient qualify for liver transplantation after the down-staging of hepatocellular carcinoma?

(2011) Francis Y. Yao et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Unfair Priority for HCC: A Problem Whose Ideal Solution Remains Unsolved

(2010) M. L. Volk   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Are Advantaged in the Current Liver Transplant Allocation System

(2010) K. Washburn et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION

A Randomized Trial Comparing Radiofrequency Ablation and Surgical Resection for HCC Conforming to the Milan Criteria

(2010) Jiwei Huang et al.   ANNALS OF SURGERY

Radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma: Long-term results and prognostic factors in 235 Western patients with cirrhosis

(2009) Gisèle N'Kontchou et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Report of a national conference on liver allocation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States

(2009) Elizabeth A. Pomfret et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION