Blood Transfusions and Tumor Biopsy May Increase HCC Recurrence Rates after Liver Transplantation

Figure 1

HCC recurrence rates in patients without (a) and with (b) microvascular invasion in correlation with the recipient’s age at transplantation ( age ≤ 60 versus age > 60 tested by stratified log rank test).

(a) No vascular invasion

(b) Vascular invasion