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"Preemptive" live donor liver transplantation for fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma: a case report.
Transplantation proceedings - 1 Dec 2008
Fouzas I, Sotiropoulos G C, Molmenti E P, Beckebaum S, Schmitz K J, Broelsch C E, Lang H, Malagó M
Abstract excerpt
Fibrolamellar (FL) hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a distinctive form of primary HCC that occurs principally in children and young adults. Although liver transplantation is not contraindicated for FL-HCC, noncirrhotic patients with large HCC tumors (including FL-HCCs) are not prioritized. Although hepatic resection is considered to be the primary treatment for FL-HCC, living donor liver transplantation is...
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