Table 1.

Clinical characteristics.

	Normal liver n = 3	F1,2 n = 7	F3,4 HCC- n = 4	F3,4 HCC+ n = 8	P
Age (yr)	77	47	53	68	0.0101
Sex (male/female)	1/2	5/2	0/4	4/4	0.1492
Albumin	4.2	4.3	3.6	3.6	0.0233
Prothrombin time (%)	79	83	63	66	0.0453
Bilirubin	0.6	0.7	1.0	0.8	0.3793
ALT HCC stage I/II/III	18	75	72	78	0.2003
				2003-2-3

¹One-way ANOVA,

²Fisher’s Exact Test;

³Kruskal-Wallis test, P-values were calculated only in HCV-infected cases.