ArticleHepatology international2021
A new horizon in risk stratification of hepatocellular carcinoma by integrating vessels that encapsulate tumor clusters and microvascular invasion.
Article in Hepatology international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed.
- Development and Validation of a Novel Nomogram for Predicting Vessels that Encapsulate Tumor Cluster in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterTrial
- MRI radiomics combined with clinical factors to predict vessels encapsulating tumor clusters and early recurrence in hepatocellular carcinoma (≤ 3 cm).BMC medical imaging · 2026Article
- Vessels That Encapsulate Tumor Cluster+ Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinomas Benefit of Antiangiogenic Therapy.Liver cancer · 2026Article
- Preoperative contrast-enhanced CT prediction of distinct vascular patterns in solitary early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma and its prognostic value.Insights into imaging · 2026Article
- Vessels encapsulating tumor clusters in hepatocellular carcinoma: a distinct metastatic pathway with diagnostic and therapeutic significance.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- Letter to the Editor regarding "Fractal analysis based on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI for prediction of vessels that encapsulate tumor clusters in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma."International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2026Article
- MRI Radiomics-Based Evaluation of Vessels Encapsulating Tumor Clusters and Microvascular Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma · 2026Article
- An Interpretable MRI-Based Machine Learning Model for Preoperative Identification of the Vascular Dissemination Phenotype in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Dual-Center Study.Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma · 2026Article
- The diagnostic accuracy of imaging methods in preoperative prediction of vessels encapsulating tumor clusters in hepatocellular carcinoma in East Asian populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Preoperative Multifrequency MR Elastography for Stratifying Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway and Microvascular Invasion Phenotypes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2025Article
- Three-dimensional MR elastography-based stiffness for assessing the status of Ki67 proliferation index and Cytokeratin-19 in hepatocellular carcinoma.European radiology · 2025Article
- Relationship between contrast-enhanced ultrasound combined with ultrasound resolution microscopy imaging and histological features of hepatocellular carcinoma.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2025Article
- VETC predicting model based on CE-CT can predict prognosis and assisting treatment plan for solitary HCC: better together with radiomics.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- CT-Based Radiomics Features Combined with AFP for Predicting Vessels Encapsulating Tumor Clusters and Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma · 2025Article
- Application Value of Enhanced CT Imaging Features in Predicting Vessels Encapsulating Tumor Clusters (VETC) Positivity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Current medical imaging · 2025Article
- A multi-parametric prognostic model based on clinicopathologic features: vessels encapsulating tumor clusters and hepatic plates predict overall survival in hepatocellular carcinoma patients.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Article
- Predicting post-resection recurrence by integrating imaging-based surrogates of distinct vascular patterns of hepatocellular carcinoma.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2023Article
- Vessels that encapsulate tumour clusters vascular pattern in hepatocellular carcinoma.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2023Review
- Application of a Convolutional Neural Network for Multitask Learning to Simultaneously Predict Microvascular Invasion and Vessels that Encapsulate Tumor Clusters in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Annals of surgical oncology · 2022Article
- A Promising Preoperative Prediction Model for Microvascular Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Based on an Extreme Gradient Boosting Algorithm.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundVessels that encapsulate tumor clusters (VETC) is a novel described vascular pattern different from microvascular invasion (MVI) for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The prognostic value of integrating VETC and MVI (VETC-MVI model) in HCC patients after resection remains unclear.
methodsFrom January 2013 to December 2016, 498 HCC patients who underwent curative resection were enrolled from five academic centers and stratified into different groups according to their VETC and MVI statuses. Overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), and early and late recurrence rates were evaluated.
resultsThe patients were divided into four subgroups: VETC
conclusionsVETC status provides additional discriminative information for patients with either MVI
Indexed as
Identifiers
33835379What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.