UCSF Criteria (HCC Liver Transplant)
UCSF criteria for HCC liver-transplant eligibility (Yao 2001).
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Number of tumor nodules
- 2
- Largest tumor diameter
- 4.0 cm
- Total (summed) tumor diameter
- 7.0 cm
Result: Within UCSF criteria for HCC transplant.
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What the result means
- Within
- a single tumor <= 6.5 cm, or <= 3 nodules with the largest <= 4.5 cm and total <= 8 cm.
- Vetoes
- gross vascular invasion or extrahepatic spread makes a patient ineligible regardless of size.
- vs Milan
- the expanded version of Milan (single <= 5 cm or <= 3 nodules each <= 3 cm).
What you enter
- Number of tumor nodules
- Largest tumor diameter (cm; single-tumor limit 6.5, multi-tumor limit 4.5)
- Total (summed) tumor diameter (cm; multi-tumor limit 8)
- Gross (macro)vascular invasion present
- Extrahepatic spread present
How this is calculated
Yao FY, Ferrell L, Bass NM, et al. Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: expansion of the tumor size limits does not adversely impact survival. Hepatology. 2001;33(6):1394-1403. Read the source ↗
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