Prognostic significance of nodular number in patients undergoing hepatectomy of intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, General Surgery Centre, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
• ² Hepatobiliary Surgery and Transplant Unit, IRCCS, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
• ³ Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• ⁴ Liver Cancer Program, Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
• ⁷ Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Pu'er People's Hospital, Pu'er, Yunnan, China.
• ⁸ Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, China.
• ⁹ Department of General Surgery, Ziyang First People's Hospital, Ziyang, Sichuan, China.
• ¹⁰ Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Fuyang People's Hospital, Fuyang, Anhui, China.
• ¹¹ Department of General Surgery, Cancer Centre, Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Affiliated People's Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
• ¹² Department of General Surgery, Liuyang People's Hospital, Liuyang, Hunan, China.
• ¹³ The Second Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Meizhou People's Hospital, Meizhou, Guangdong, China.
• ¹⁴ The First Department of General Surgery, The Fourth Hospital of Harbin, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
• ¹⁵ Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
• ¹⁶ Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University (Navy Medical University), Shanghai, China.
• ¹⁷ Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.