Is chronic schistosomiasis japonica an independent adverse prognostic factor for survival in hepatocellular carcinoma patients who have undergone hepatic resection : clinicopathological and prognostic analysis of 198 consecutive patients?
Patients with chronic SJ were older, had larger HCC, and were more often complicated by cholangiocellular carcinoma (or cholangiolocellular carcinoma) than non-SJ patients. Chronic SJ was an independent adverse prognostic factor for survival after hepatic resection in HCC patients.
Donated embryos frozen for over five years (the time when some countries demand that the embryos be discarded) contributed to one-fourth of the donor embryo pool and one-third of the live deliveries.