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ArticleLiver cancer2021

Role of Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Vascular Invasion: Emerging Evidence from Western Countries.

Norihiro Kokudo, Takashi Kokudo, Kiyoshi Hasegawa

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Article in Liver cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Norihiro KokudoDepartment of HPB Surgery, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Takashi KokudoDivision of HPB Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Kiyoshi HasegawaDivision of HPB Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
The University of Tokyo · JPNational Center for Global Health and Medicine · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with macrovascular invasion, that is, tumor thrombosis in the portal vein or hepatic vein, are generally considered not eligible for liver resection in Western countries, and only systemic therapy is recommended. However, there is a subgroup of patients who can survive long after surgical treatment despite having a very advanced stage of the disease. Some Asian surgical centers and a few Western surgical centers have been using surgery to treat BCLC stage C HCC as long as it is operable, and those centers have reported acceptable outcomes. In this issue of

Indexed as

GuidelineHepatocellular carcinomaLiver resectionVascular invasion

Identifiers

PMID34721503
PMCPMC8527898
OpenAlexW3179354575

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Registered trials

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