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Liver transplantation with simultaneous splenectomy increases risk of cancer development and mortality in hepatocellular carcinoma patients

BACKGROUND: Splenectomy has previously been found to increase the risk of cancer development, including lung, non-melanoma skin cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and ovarian cancer. The risk of cancer development in liver transplantation (LT) with simultaneous splenectomy remains uncle...

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Autores principales: Fan, Hsiu-Lung, Hsieh, Chung-Bao, Kuo, Shih-Ming, Chen, Teng-Wei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36185566
http://dx.doi.org/10.4240/wjgs.v14.i9.930