Journal of Hepatology
Volume 53, Issue 2 , Pages 291-297 , August 2010

Semiannual surveillance is superior to annual surveillance for the detection of early hepatocellular carcinoma and patient survival

  • Valentina Santi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Unità di Semeiotica Medica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy
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  • Franco Trevisani

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Unità di Semeiotica Medica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Semeiotica Medica, via Albertoni, 15, 40138 Bologna, Italy. Tel.: +39 051 6362923; fax: +39 051 6362930.
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  • Annagiulia Gramenzi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Unità di Semeiotica Medica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy
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  • Alice Grignaschi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Unità di Semeiotica Medica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy
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  • Federica Mirici-Cappa

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Unità di Semeiotica Medica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy
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  • Paolo Del Poggio

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Medicina, Ospedale Treviglio-Caravaggio, Treviglio, Italy
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  • Maria Anna Di Nolfo

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Medicina, Azienda Ospedaliera Bolognini, Seriate, Italy
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  • Luisa Benvegnù

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Unità di Medicina, Università di Padova, Italy
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  • Fabio Farinati

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche e Gastroenterologiche, Unità di Gastroenterologia, Università di Padova, Italy
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  • Marco Zoli

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Unità di Medicina, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy
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  • Edoardo Giovanni Giannini

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Unità di Gastroenterologia, Università di Genova, Italy
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  • Franco Borzio

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina, Unità di Medicina Interna ed Epatologia, Ospedale Fatebenefratelli, Milano, Italy
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  • Eugenio Caturelli

      Affiliations

    • Unità di Gastroenterologia, Ospedale Belcolle, Viterbo, Italy
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  • Maria Chiaramonte

      Affiliations

    • Unità di Gastroenterologia, Ospedale Sacro Cuore Don Calabria, Negrar, Italy
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  • Mauro Bernardi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Unità di Semeiotica Medica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy
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  • for the Italian Liver Cancer (ITA.LI.CA) Group

      Affiliations

    • Other members of the ITA.LI.CA group: Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italia: Pietro Andreone, Paolo Caraceni, Antonio Di Micoli, Marco Domenicali, Gianluca Fatti, Donatella Magalotti, Andrea Zambruni; Divisione di Medicina, Azienda Ospedaliera Bolognini, Seriate, Italia: Claudia Balsamo, Maria Di Marco, Elena Vavassori; Divisione di Medicina, Ospedale Treviglio-Caravaggio, Treviglio, Italia: Lodovico Gilardoni, Mario Mattiello; Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università di Padova, Italia: Alfredo Alberti, Angelo Gatta, Maurizio Gios; Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche e Gastroenterologiche, Università di Padova, Italia: Massimo De Giorgio, Anna Giacomin, Simona Gianni, Michela Rinaldi, Adriana Sergio, Veronica Vanin; Dipartimento di Discipline Chirurgiche, Rianimatorie e dei Trapianti, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italia: Gian Luca Grazi, Antonio Daniele Pinna, Matteo Ravaioli; Dipartimento di Malattie Apparato Digerente e Medicina Interna, Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria di Bologna, Italia: Emanuela Giampalma, Rita Golfieri; Unità di Gastroenterologia, Ospedale Belcolle, Viterbo, Italia: Giorgia Ghittoni, Paola Roselli; Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Unità di Gastroenterologia, Italia, Università di Genova: Giorgia Bodini, Marina Corbo, Vincenzo Savarino.

Received 21 December 2009 ,Revised 12 March 2010 ,Accepted 16 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2010.03.010

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 53, Issue 2 , Pages 291-297 , August 2010

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