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Hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
World journal of gastroenterology - 7 Oct 2016
Wong Carrie R, Nguyen Mindie H, Lim Joseph K
Abstract excerpt
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease in the United States and represents an increasingly important etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with annual cumulative incidence rates ranging from 2% to 12% in cohorts of NAFLD cirrhosis. While the risk of progression of NAFLD to HCC remains higher among patients with fibrosis or cirrhosis, an increasing amount of...
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