AFP and hepatocellular carcinoma: Established pathologic characteristics such as T-stage and histologic grade, as well as microvascular invasion and tumor markers such as AFP, have been associated with a risk of recurrence; there is also a growing body of literature regarding the use of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT to predict the recurrence of HCC after LT [43,44,45,46,47,48,49].