Predictive value of spleen stiffness in hepatocellular carcinoma

In their Letter to the Editor, Wei et al. address on the role of spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) for predicting the late recurrence (>24 months post-surgery) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after resection (1). They comment on a recently published manuscript by Marasco and colleagues, who could show that spleen stiffness measured by transient elastography was the only predictor of late HCC recurrence after surgery (2).