(en) To the Editor; We read with interest the article from Sharma and collaborators.1 The authors proposed a score based on four variables (age, sex, etiology of cirrhosis, and platelet count) to predict the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a cohort of 2,079 patients with cirrhosis validated in an external cohort. [...]
Marot, A., Henrion, J., Knebel, J.-F., & Deltenre, P. (2018). Individualized prediction of hepatocellular carcinoma occurrence in a large cohort of patients with cirrhosis. Journal of Hepatology, 69(4), 975-976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2018.06.007 (Original work published 2018)