2005 PRETEXT: a revised staging system for primary malignant liver tumours of childhood developed by the SIOPEL group.
Over the last 15 years, various oncology groups throughout the world have used the PRETEXT system for staging malignant primary liver tumours of childhood. This paper, written by members of the radiology and surgery committees of the International Childhood Liver Tumor Strategy Group (SIOPEL), presents various clarifications and revisions to the original PRETEXT system.
Roebuck
Derek J
DJ
Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK. roebud@gosh.nhs.uk
Aronson
Daniel
D
Clapuyt
Philippe
P
Czauderna
Piotr
P
de Ville de Goyet
Jean
J
Gauthier
Frédéric
F
Mackinlay
Gordon
G
Maibach
Rudolf
R
McHugh
Kieran
K
Olsen
Oystein E
OE
Otte
Jean-Bernard
JB
Pariente
Danièle
D
Plaschkes
Jack
J
Childs
Margaret
M
Perilongo
Giorgio
G
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000473:pathology*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000592:standards*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic