Should a biopsy precede liver resection or transplantation for presumed hepatocellular carcinoma when the alfa fetoprotein is normal?

Transplantation. 2004 Feb 27;77(4):637-8. doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000109783.98513.e3.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Biopsy
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / pathology*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Liver Transplantation*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • alpha-Fetoproteins / metabolism*

Substances

  • alpha-Fetoproteins