Surgical treatment of intra hepatic recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma

Table 2 Five years overall survival and prognostic factors for overall survival after salvage liver transplantation

Ref.	Type of study	Patients (n)	5 yr overall survival	Prognostic factors for overall survival
Sapisochin et al[24]	Case control study	17	52%
Wu et al[28]	Retrospective study	36	69.4%
Liu et al[29]	Retrospective study	39	61%
Fuks et al[11]	Retrospective study	138	71%
Guerrini et al[22]	Retrospective study	28	49.2%
Chan et al[20]	Systematic review	319	62%
Qu et al[30]	Retrospective Study	111	49.5%	Edmonson grade
				Hepatic vein invasion
				Portal vein invasion
				TNM stage
Lee et al[31]	Retrospective study	69	54.6%	Time to recurrence
				Alpha foetoprotein > 200 ng/mL
				HCC outside Milan criteria

HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma.