Figure 3.

 Comparison of the fraction of mononuclear cells in the population of polyploid hepatocytes (FMP) in patients with chronic hepatitis. Four groups of patients were defined: low activity and low fibrosis; high activity and low fibrosis; low activity and high fibrosis; and high activity and high fibrosis. FMP percentages were calculated as follows: FMP  =  number of mononuclear polyploid hepatocytes/number of all polyploid hepatocytes (mononuclear polyploid hepatocytes+binuclear hepatocytes). The ends of each box represent the quartiles, and the median of distribution is indicated by a line within the box; n corresponds to the number of patients in each group. All p values were calculated using the Mann-Whitney U test.