Table 2.

Perioperative and pathological factors affecting longterm survival in patients submitted to resection for hepatocellular carcinoma who did (Group A) and did not (Group B) survive for ≥10 years after resection (n = 176)

	Group A	Group B
Factors	(n = 28, 15.9%)	(n = 148, 84.1%)	P-value
Perioperative factors
Major resection (>3 segments), n (%)	11 (39.3%)	77 (52.0%)	0.204
Portal thrombectomy, n (%)	1 (3.6%)	19 (12.8%)	0.154
Required transfusion, n (%)	8 (28.6%)	82 (57.3%)	0.005
(Missing data: 5, 2.8%)
Pathological factors
Largest diameter, cm, mean ± SD	5.7 ± 3.1	8.2 ± 5.2	0.001
(Missing data: 6, 3.4%)
Largest diameter >5 cm, n (%)	11 (40.7%)	92 (64.3%)	0.021
Tumour differentiation, n (%)	10 (38.5%)/12 (46.2%)/4 (15.4%)	42 (33.6%)/59 (47.2%)/24 (19.2%)	0.851
(Good/moderate/poor)
(Missing data: 25, 14.2%)
Margin positive resection, n (%)	1 (3.6%)	9 (6.5%)	0.581
(Missing data: 9, 5.1%)
Satellites, n (%)	8 (28.6%)	68 (48.6%)	0.075
(Missing data: 8, 4.5%)
Vascular invasion, n (%)			0.001
(Missing data: 6, 3.4%)
None	15 (55.6%)	34 (23.8%)
Micro	5 (18.5%)	53 (37.1%)
Gross	7 (25.9%)	56 (39.2%)

SD, standard deviation.