Microscopic Portal Vein Invasion in Relation to Tumor Focality and Dimension in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Brian I Carr Vito Guerra Rossella Donghia Volkan Ince Sami Akbulut Veysel Ersan Sertac Usta Burak Isik Emine Türkmen Şamdancı Sezai Yilmaz

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2021)

MTD had stronger associations with microPVI than with multifocality. microPVI was associated with worse survival in patients with large HCCs, but survival was not impacted by number of tumor foci. microPVI and multifocality appear weakly related, having different behavior in relation to MTD and survival.

Keyphrases

free survival
drug induced