Sarcopenia as a predictor of survival in patients undergoing bland transarterial embolization for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma

• Ezio Lanza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ezio Lanza, Chiara Masetti, Gaia Messana

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eziolanza@gmail.com

  Affiliation Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1889-8798

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• Chiara Masetti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ezio Lanza, Chiara Masetti, Gaia Messana

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy

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• Gaia Messana ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ezio Lanza, Chiara Masetti, Gaia Messana

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy

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• Riccardo Muglia,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy, Division of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy

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• Nicola Pugliese,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Division of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6466-1412

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• Roberto Ceriani,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy

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• Ana Lleo de Nalda,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Division of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy

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• Lorenza Rimassa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy, Medical Oncology and Hematology Unit, Humanitas Cancer Center, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-3615

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• Guido Torzilli,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Hepatobiliary & General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy

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• Dario Poretti,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy

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• Felice D’Antuono,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy

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• Letterio Salvatore Politi,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy, Medical Oncology and Hematology Unit, Humanitas Cancer Center, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan, Italy, Division of Hepatobiliary & General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy, Department of Radiology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy

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• Vittorio Pedicini ,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  ¶‡ VP and AA are Joint Senior Authors.

  Affiliation Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy

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• Alessio Aghemo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ VP and AA are Joint Senior Authors.

  Affiliations Division of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Research Hospital IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy

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• on behalf of the Humanitas HCC Multidisciplinary Group

  ¶Membership of the Humanitas HCC Multidisciplinary Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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