A new model to estimate prognosis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after Yttrium-90 radioembolization.

AIMS: The current prognostic model to estimate the survival in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients treated with transarterial hepatic selective internal radiotherapy (SIRT) is not fully characterized. The aim of this study was to establish a new scoring model including assessment of both tumor r...

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Main Authors: Zhihong Weng, Judith Ertle, Shaoping Zheng, Thomas Lauenstein, Stefan Mueller, Andreas Bockisch, Guido Gerken, Dongliang Yang, Joerg F Schlaak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3867327?pdf=render