title: Peritoneal recurrence of initially controlled hepatocellular carcinoma after living donor liver transplantation.
abstract: It is well known that the presence of end-stage liver disease increases the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Liver transplantation (LT) for patients within the Milan criteria has become a standard treatment for HCC in most developed centers worldwide. However, a major cause of death in cirrhotic patients with HCC after transplantation is tumor recurrence, including peritoneal recurrences, which develops rarely but presents a significant problem with regard to their management. Our experience includes two cases with HCC within the Milan criteria of peritoneal recurrences after living donor LT. Both patients had interventions for HCC in their medical history before LT, and we propose that these might have been a possible cause of the HCC peritoneal recurrence.
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan ; Department of HPB Surgery, Syzganov's National Scientific Center of Surgery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
authors: Nariman
authors: N
authors: Sadykov
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Akihiko
authors: A
authors: Soyama
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Masaaki
authors: M
authors: Hidaka
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Ayaka
authors: A
authors: Kinoshita
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Mitsuhisa
authors: M
authors: Takatsuki
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Tomohiko
authors: T
authors: Adachi
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Amane
authors: A
authors: Kitasato
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Fumihiko
authors: F
authors: Fujita
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Tamotsu
authors: T
authors: Kuroki
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Susumu
authors: S
authors: Eguchi
keywords: Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation; Peritoneal recurrence