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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

From: Non-contrast short MRI surveillance for HCC screening: the study protocol of the SMS-HCC prospective multicenter study

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

- Patients age ≥ 18 years at time of enrollment

- Patients diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B

 ◦ All patients diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B and liver cirrhosis

 ◦ The following patients diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B without liver cirrhosis:

  ▪ East-Asian men ≥ 40 years of age

  ▪ East-Asian women ≥ 50 years of age

  ▪ Patients from sub-Saharan Africa ≥ 20 years of age

  ▪ Patients with HCC family history

- Patients diagnosed with non-hepatitis B cirrhosis:

 ◦ Patients diagnosed with hepatitis C

 ◦ Patients diagnosed with alcoholic cirrhosis

 ◦ Patients diagnosed with hemochromatosis

 ◦ Patients diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis

- Patients age < 18 years at time of enrollment

- Patients who decline to sign the written informed consent form

- Patients with contraindications for undergoing magnetic resonance imaging examination