Validating the ALBI grade: Its current and future use in HCC prognostication

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¹ Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: awh_chan@cuhk.edu.hk.
² Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
³ Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁴ Department of Clinical Oncology, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Institute of Digestive Disease, Partner State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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Anthony W H Chan et al. J Hepatol. 2017 Mar.

. 2017 Mar;66(3):661-663.

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.10.037. Epub 2016 Nov 25.

¹ Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: awh_chan@cuhk.edu.hk.
² Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
³ Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁴ Department of Clinical Oncology, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Institute of Digestive Disease, Partner State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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Pinato DJ, Yen C, Sharma R. Pinato DJ, et al. J Hepatol. 2017 Mar;66(3):663-664. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.11.010. Epub 2016 Nov 25. J Hepatol. 2017. PMID: 27890793 No abstract available.

The ALBI grade provides objective hepatic reserve estimation across each BCLC stage of hepatocellular carcinoma.
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