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SUBMITTER: Xun Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221652 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xun Yangqin Y Tian Hongwei H Hu Lidong L Yan Peijing P Yang Kehu K Guo Tiankang T
Medicine 20181001 43
This meta-analysis aims to clarify the clinical impacts of allogeneic blood transfusion (ABT) on hepatectomy outcome in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. A systematic literature search was performed for relevant articles in international and Chinese databases up to May 2018. Random- or fixed-effect meta-analysis was used to pool the effect estimates. Publication bias was assessed by Egger's and Peters's test. Heterogeneity was assessed using the I statistic. The strength of evidence was r ...[more]