Surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with cirrhosis improves outcome.

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Published in Am J Med on February 01, 2008

Authors

Richard Todd Stravitz1, Douglas M Heuman, Nisha Chand, Richard K Sterling, Mitchell L Shiffman, Velimir A Luketic, Arun J Sanyal, Adil Habib, Anastasios A Mihas, Ho-Chong S Giles, Daniel G Maluf, Adrian H Cotterell, Marc P Posner, Robert A Fisher

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Hepatology, Hume-Lee Transplant Center of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298-0341, USA. rstravit@hsc.vcu.edu

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