Assessment of Preoperative Liver Function in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma - The Albumin-Indocyanine Green Evaluation (ALICE) Grade.

Most patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have underlying liver disease, therefore, precise preoperative evaluation of the patient's liver function is essential for surgical decision making.We developed a grading system incorporating only two variables, namely, the serum albumin level a...

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Main Authors: Takashi Kokudo, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Katsumi Amikura, Emilie Uldry, Chikara Shirata, Takamune Yamaguchi, Junichi Arita, Junichi Kaneko, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Amane Takahashi, Hirohiko Sakamoto, Masatoshi Makuuchi, Yutaka Matsuyama, Nicolas Demartines, Massimo Malagó, Norihiro Kokudo, Nermin Halkic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4951137?pdf=render