Table 1.

Characteristics of 15 patients with Primary Hepatocellular carcinoma admitted to the Gastroenterology service of Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

Serial	Age	Sex	HBsAg	HIV	ALT(Normal	AST(Normal	ALP(Normal	GGT(Normal	AFP(Normal	Histopathology	Status at 1 month
No				serology	</=40	</=32	</=129	</=65	</=8	type
					IU/ml)	IU/ml)	IU/ml)	IU/ml)	IU/ml)
1	38	F	P	N	43	549	165	457	400	Trabecular	A
2	18	F	P	N	46	46	356	248	326	Trabecular	D
3	28	M	P	N	54	119	1294	365	400	X	A
4	19	M	P	N	87	321	346	535	400	Trabecular	D
5	15	M	P	N	130	100	392	250	362	Trabecular	D
6	26	M	P	N	105	307	601	315	400	Trabecular	A
7	43	F	P	N	74	332	449	633	326	Trabecular	D
8	33	F	P	P	79	222	1043	312	400	X	A
9	30	F	N	N	14	96	680	413	400	Trabecular	D
10	38	M	P	N	51	270	294	122	362	Trabecular	D
11	36	M	P	P	145	393	930	484	7	Trabecular	D
12	38	M	N	N	55	136	*	268	338	Fibrolamellar	D
13	45	F	P	P	60	40	120	60	480	X	D
14	33	M	P	N	60	275	*	192	400	Adenoid	D
15	67	M	P	N	18	88	349	226	350	X	D

M-Male, F- Female, P- positive, N- negative, X- Biopsy not done, D-Dead, A-Alive, ALT- Alanine aminotransferase, ALP- Alkaline phosphatase, AST Aspartate aminotransferase, GGT- Gamma glutamyltraspeptidase, AFP- Alpha-fetoprotein, HBsAg- Hepatitis B surface antigen, HIV- Human immune deficiency virus

^*Patients in whom ALP measurements were missing