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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2008 Sep;48(3):819–827. doi: 10.1002/hep.22412

Table 7.

Correlation Between Radiologic and Explant Pathologic Tumor Characteristics

Complete Tumor
Necrosis in Explant		 Pathologic Tumor Stage
Meeting T2 Criteria in
Explant		 Pathologic Tumor Stage
>T2 Criteria in Explant
Complete radiologic response with no tumor enhancement (n = 15)* 9 6 0
Radiologic stage within T2 criteria (n = 20) 4 11 5
Total (N = 35) 13 17 5
*

Includes one patient who had wedge resection as a down-staging procedure; two small tumor nodules measuring 0.9 cm and 0.3 cm were found in the liver explant.