Meet the editor

Dr. Georgios Tsoulfas received his medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine, Rhode Island, and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, as well as a transplant research fellowship at the Starzl Transplant Institute, University of Pittsburgh. He then completed a two-year transplantation surgery fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and

then joined the Division of Solid Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, as Assistant Professor of Surgery. He has currently moved back to Greece, where he is a Professor of Transplantation Surgery and Chief of the Department of Transplantation Surgery at the Aristotle University School of Medicine. He has published more than 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and PubMed, as well as 35 book chapters. He is a reviewer for more than forty international journals and serves on the editorial boards of several others.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Phantom

*by Aditya Kale*

*and Nguyen Linh Toan*

*by Wenbin Liu and Guangwen Cao*

*by Emine Turkmen Samdanci*

**Preface XI**

Epidemiology and Etiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

Diagnosis and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma **37**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 79**

**Chapter 6 103**

Histopathological Features of the Steatohepatitic Variant of Hepatocellular

Multimodal Imaging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Dynamic Liver

Circulating Biomarkers for Early Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Classification of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Machine Learning *by Lekshmi Kalinathan, Deepika Sivasankaran, Janet Reshma Jeyasingh,* 

*by Muntaser S. Ahmad, Osama Makhamrah and Mohammad Hjouj*

Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Diagnosis and Surveillance

*by Hoang Van Tong, Pham Van Dung, Nguyen Thi Mong Diep* 

*Amritha Sennappa Sudharsan and Hareni Marimuthu*

Carcinoma and Its Relationship with Fatty Liver Disease

Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) - Induced Hepatocarcinogenesis, a Founding Framework of Cancer Evolution and Development (*Cancer Evo-Dev*)
