Table 2.

Clinicopathological characteristics of primary hepatocellular carcinoma patients.

			Caveolin-1
Parameters	Variable	No. of patients	(+)	%	p*
Gender	Male	80	53	66.3	0.833
	Female	15	9	60
Tumor size	< 5 cm	78	51	65.4	0.833
	> 5 cm	17	11	64.7
Etiology	Hepatitis viruses	79	52	65.8	0.601
	Non-viral	11	7	63.6
	Unknown	5	3	60
Number of tumor nodules	< 3	43	29	67.4	0.580
	> 3	52	33	63.5
Venous invasion	Present	38	29	76.3	0.02**
	Absent	57	33	57.9
Tumor grade (a)	Well differentiated	18	8	44.4	< 0.001**
	Moderately differentiated	60	39	65.0
	Poorly differentiated	17	15	88.2

* X², ** Statistically significant

^(a) All of the HCC tissues used in this study are in a cirrhotic background.