Franco Borzio

TL;DR: In this paper, the thyroid function in patients with chronic hepatitis and chronic hepatitis was evaluated, showing that thyroid function was almost always maintained, probably as a result of low normal FT3 and high-normal FT4.

TL;DR: Results indicate that, in patients with cirrhosis with nodular lesions < 30 mm, fine needle biopsy is superior to fine needle aspiration and that the combined evaluation of fine-needle aspiration plus intranodular and extranodULAR fine needleBiopsy is the most accurate approach.

TL;DR: The authors evaluated the relevance of demographic, clinical, and oncologic factors to the presence of elevated AFP levels in large cohort of patients with HCC.

TL;DR: The subclassification of the intermediate-stage HCC predicts the prognosis of patients with untreated HCC and the prognostic figures identified in this study may be used as a benchmark to assess the efficacy of therapeutic intervention in the various BCLC B substages.

TL;DR: Both surveillance strategies for HCC in cirrhotic patients can be recommended, according to the individual risk profile for H CC occurrence and the expected survival gain obtainable after tumor diagnosis and therapy.