TY - JOUR AU - Buechter, Matthias AU - Kahraman, Alisan PY - 2019 TI - Predictive value of spleen stiffness in hepatocellular carcinoma JF - Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition; Vol 9, No 1 (February 01, 2020): Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition [Special Focus on Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastasis (Part 1)] Y2 - 2019 KW - N2 - In their Letter to the Editor, Wei et al. address on the role of spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) for predicting the late recurrence (>24 months post-surgery) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after resection (1). They comment on a recently published manuscript by Marasco and colleagues, who could show that spleen stiffness measured by transient elastography was the only predictor of late HCC recurrence after surgery (2). UR - https://hbsn.amegroups.org/article/view/29721