Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Single Center Resume Overlooking Four Decades of Experience

Figure 3

Survival with respect to hospital mortality and HCC recurrence. (a) Cumulative survival of all patients (, blue line), without hospital mortality (, green line) and with HCC recurrence related deaths only (, red line). (b) HCC recurrence-free survival (blue line, Cox regression analysis with HCC recurrence as time-dependent covariate) and with respect to extrahepatic (green line), intrahepatic (red line), or combined extrahepatic/intrahepatic HCC recurrences (orange line). HCC recurrence was highly significant hazard of survival (, ), but it made no difference to survival whether HCC recurrences were at intrahepatic, at extrahepatic, or at combined intrahepatic/extrahepatic locations ().

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