Table 3.

Relationship between Tumor Recurrence and Nuclear Accumulation of β-Catenin or Proliferative Index in Primary HCCs

	Patients with recurrence (n = 10)	Patients free of disease (n = 11)	P value*
Nuclear β-catenin rate	44.27 ± 12.28%	18.2 ± 9.91%	<0.05
Proliferative index	880.6 ± 217.15	211.73 ± 70.11	<0.02

Nuclear immunostaining rates are given as the mean ± SE percentage of β-catenin-positive nuclei. Proliferative indexes are given as the mean ± SE count of Ki-67-positive cells in 10 consecutive high power (×400) fields.

*Mann-Whitney U-test.