Recent studies have identified cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) arising in cryptogenic cirrhosis and proposed that many of them may be attributable to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
BCLC Group, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.