Selection criteria adopted for surgical enrollment of BCLC-B patients are shown in Figure 1. Each criterion regarding tumor feature, liver status, and patient’s performance status had to be satisfied to make patients eligible for surgery. Figure 1. Selection criteria adopted for enrollment to ...
A major post-transplant complication was defined as Clavien-Dindo class IV or V, which meant that patients experienced life-threatening organ dysfunction or even death [20]. HCC recurrence was diagnosed when the tumor recurred in the liver graft or any place in the body after a period when ...