The Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL) Consensus on Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in India: The Puri Recommendations.

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Published in J Clin Exp Hepatol on May 22, 2014

Authors

Ashish Kumar1, Subrat K Acharya2, Shivaram P Singh3, Vivek A Saraswat4, Anil Arora1, Ajay Duseja5, Mahesh K Goenka6, Deepali Jain7, Premashish Kar8, Manoj Kumar9, Vinay Kumaran10, Kunisshery M Mohandas11, Dipanjan Panda12, Shashi B Paul13, Jeyamani Ramachandran14, Hariharan Ramesh15, Padaki N Rao16, Samir R Shah17, Hanish Sharma2, Ragesh B Thandassery6, (The INASL Task-Force on Hepatocellular Carcinoma)

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
2: Department of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Road, New Delhi 110 029, India.
3: Department of Gastroenterology, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
4: Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
5: Department of Hepatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
6: Department of Gastroenterology, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, 58, Canal Circular Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 054, India.
7: Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
8: Department of Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
9: Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India.
10: Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
11: Department of Digestive Diseases, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, West Bengal 700156, India.
12: Department of Oncology, Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India.
13: Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
14: Department of Hepatology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu 632 004, India.
15: Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Lakeshore Hospital and Research Center, Cochin, Kerala, India.
16: Department of Medical Gastroenterology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Somajiguda, Hyderabad, India.
17: Department of Gastroenterology, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Peddar Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400 026, India.

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