Strict Selection Alone of Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation for Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma Is Associated with Improved Survival

• Hendrik T. J. Mantel,

  Affiliation Department of Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

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• Andrie C. Westerkamp,

  Affiliation Department of Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

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• René Adam,

  Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hôpital Paul Brousse, University of Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France

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• William F. Bennet,

  Affiliation Transplant Institute, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Daniel Seehofer,

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Charité Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany

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• Utz Settmacher,

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, University of Jena, Jena, Germany

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• Francisco Sánchez-Bueno,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Virgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital, Murcia, Spain

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• Joan Fabregat Prous,

  Affiliation Department of Hepato-Pancreatico- Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University Hospital de Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Emmanuel Boleslawski,

  Affiliation Department of Digestive Surgery and Transplantation, Lille University Medical Center, University of Lille Nord de France, Lille, France

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• Styrbjörn Friman,

  Affiliation Transplant Institute, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Robert J. Porte ,

  * E-mail: r.j.porte@umcg.nl

  Affiliation Department of Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

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• European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA)

  ¶Participating authors and contributors of the European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA) are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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