Liver resection versus microwave ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma in ideal candidates for ablation per Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer staging: a propensity score matching and inverse probability of treatment weighting analysis.
Yao TongRan CaiJun-Xiang LiDe-Hua ChangLi-Zhou WangWen-Wu CaiYu-Dong XiaoPublished in: Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics (2022)
An 'ideal candidate for ablation' according to the BCLC staging system may not be an ideal candidate for MWA. However, patients with BCLC-0 may be the optimal population for MWA.