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Liver Transplantation for High-Grade Primary Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor with Diffuse Liver Metastasis

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  1. Avicenna Transplant Hospital, Avicenna Center for Medicine and Organ Transplant, Shiraz, Iran

    Saman Nikeghbalian, Ahad Eshraghian, Kourosh Kazemi, Alireza Shamsaeefar & Seyed Ali Malek-Hosseini

  2. Department of Pathology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

    Masood Hosseinzadeh & Bita Geramizadeh

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Nikeghbalian, S., Eshraghian, A., Kazemi, K. et al. Liver Transplantation for High-Grade Primary Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor with Diffuse Liver Metastasis. J Gastrointest Canc 51, 304–306 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-019-00244-7

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