Accuracy of vascular invasion reporting in hepatocellular carcinoma before and after implementation of subspecialty surgical pathology sign-out
Author(s) -
AaronR Huber,
RaulS Gonzalez,
M. Orloff,
ChristopherT Barry,
ChristaL Whitney-Miller
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/ijpm.ijpm_827_16
Subject(s) - medicine , subspecialty , hepatocellular carcinoma , surgical pathology , liver transplantation , vascular invasion , h&e stain , kappa , pathology , milan criteria , carcinoma , anatomical pathology , radiology , cancer , transplantation , immunohistochemistry , linguistics , philosophy
Liver cancers (including hepatocellular carcinoma [HCC] and cholangiocarcinoma) are the fifth most common cause of cancer death. The most powerful independent histologic predictor of overall survival after transplantation for HCC is the presence of microscopic vascular invasion (VI).
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