- A Case of Multiple Hepatocellular Carcinoma which was Performed Liver Transplantation after Down-staging by Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization
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Hee-Jung Wang, Bong-Wan Kim, Sung-Won Cho, Je-Hwan Won
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Journal of the Korean Liver Cancer Study Group. 2011;11(1):50-55. Published online February 28, 2011
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- A case of multiple hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) which was performed a living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) after
down-staging by transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is reviewed. Generally, the recommended therapeutic
strategy for this kind of HCC is TACE. However, the response of multiple HCC of this 48 year-old male patient was relatively
good after 4 times of TACE, and we performed LDLT on the concept of clinical trial under the informed consent of patient and
his families. Although there were two times recurrences in the liver and lung, he has overcome them and is still alive 66 months
after LDLT. We suggest that liver transplantation could be an alternative strategy in the multiple HCC cases who show good
responses after TACE.
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