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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 24.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 Dec;53(6):1016–1022. doi: 10.1002/pbc.22088

Figure 1.

Figure 1

PRETEXT = pretreatment extent of disease. May be referred to as POST-TEXT (post-treatment extent of disease) if the staging is done after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. PRETEXT I = three contiguous sections free of tumor; PRETEXT II = two contiguous sections free of tumor; PRETEXT III = one contiguous section free of tumor; PRETEXT IV = no section free of tumor. In addition any group may have: “V” Invasion vena cava or all three major hepatic veins; “P” Invasion main portal vein or portal venous bifurcation; “E” Contiguous extrahepatic growth; “M” Distant metastasis; “C” Caudate lobe involvement.