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Staging systems: Is there a surgical staging and a medical one? A surgeon's perspective
Author(s) -
Contreras Carlo M.,
Vauthey JeanNicolas
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of hepato‐biliary‐pancreatic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.63
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1868-6982
pISSN - 1868-6974
DOI - 10.1007/s00534-009-0243-y
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , medicine , schema (genetic algorithms) , population , general surgery , hepatocellular carcinoma , staging system , medical physics , surgery , computer science , cancer , artificial intelligence , information retrieval , environmental health
From a surgeon's perspective, the AJCC 6th edition is the staging system of choice due to its simplified clinicopathologic schema, discriminatory accuracy, extensive external validation, widespread geographic reproducibility, and applicability to both the resection and transplantation patient population with hepatocellular carcinoma.