Reply to Letter: "A Snapshot of the Effective Indications and Results of Surgery for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Tertiary Referral Centers: Is It Adherent to the EASL/AASLD Recommendations? An Observational Study of the HCC East-West Study Group": When the Study Setting "Ignores" the Patients

Affiliation

• ¹ Liver Surgery Unit Department of Surgery Humanitas Clinical and Research Center University of Milan Rozzano, Milan, Italy Service de Chirurgie Hépatique et Pancréatique Hôpital Beaujon University of Paris VII Clichy Cedex, Paris, France Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division Department of Surgery Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Department of Digestive Surgery Nihon University, School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan Department of HPB and Digestive Surgery Ospedale Mauriziano "Umberto I" Turin, Italy Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit Department of Surgery School of Medicine Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Rome, Italy Department of Surgical Oncology The University of TexasM.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Department of Surgery and Oncology The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, MD General Surgery and Liver Transplant Unit Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires Gascón, Buenos Aires, Argentina Liver Surgery Unit Department of Surgery Humanitas Clinical and Research Center University of Milan Rozzano, Milan, Italy Japanese Red Cross Medical Center Tokyo, Japan [email protected].