… Microvascular invasion (MVI) is rarely diagnosed … power of a non-smooth tumor margin on
preoperative imaging for MVI. We … In conclusion, a non-smooth tumor margin on preoperative …

… tumor margin and incomplete tumor capsule on MRI and nonsmooth tumor margin on CT …
than CT in terms of diagnostic stability on nonsmooth tumor margin. The reason for the greater …

… We selected patients with a large tumor size, old age and irregular tumor margin status on
imaging studies to receive preoperative 18 F-FDG-PET. This may explain why the SUV and …

… the presence and location of microvascular invasion (MVI) in … Tumor size, tumor capsule,
tumor margins, and peritumoral … risk of microvascular invasion (MVI) include large tumor size, …

… tumor margins of all nodules to identify the nodules with smooth margins (defined as nodular
tumors … We hypothesize that MVI might occur when tumor margins are invaded, regardless …

… size, and MVI were reported to mainly present in the surgical margin adjacent to tumor,
increased surgical margin width may improve surgical outcomes (31). Yamashita et al. (18) found …

… Anatomical resection or partial hepatic resection with a wide tumor margin is recommended
to eradicate MVI.27 Anatomical resection can, in theory, ideally eradicate MVI confined to …

… and microvascular invasion (MVI) in HCC are usually associated with more advanced tumor
… resection with a wide margin could better eradicate MVI adjacent to the tumor. However, …

… whereas microvascular invasion (MVI) is determined by histologic evaluation of the tumor and
… Historically, studies on margin size have stratified HCC by tumor diameter, in part because …

… Tumor margins were graded as smooth or non-smooth. A smooth tumor margin indicated
no budding at the periphery of a tumor, whereas a non-smooth tumor margin indicated a …