combining 18f fdg positron emission tomography with up to seven criteria for selecting suitable liver transplant patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

Several studies have shown that a subset of patients with HCC exceeding standard criteria may benefit from LT. Apart from that, we investigated whether the combination of the radiographic UTS criteria with 18F-FDG PET may be useful for predicting posttransplant tumor recurrence and, thus, for safely expanding the pool of suitable liver transplant patients. Based...