Table 1.
Characteristics of patients with final diagnosis of liver disease
| Malignant | Benign | |
| Number of patients | 171 | 94 |
| Male | 99 | 46 |
| Female | 72 | 48 |
| Age (years) | ||
| Median | 69 | 67 |
| Range | 22-99 | 7-86 |
| Symptoms (% of patients) | ||
| Weight loss | 71.3 | 48.9 |
| Abdominal pain | 64.7 | 51.0 |
| Jaundice | 18.8 | 19.4 |
| Signs (% of patients) | ||
| Hepatomegaly | 74.3 | 45.7 |
| Palpable liver mass | 19.9 | 5.3 |
| Ascites | 16.5 | 15.3 |
| Abdominal mass | 7.6 | 5.1 |
| Abnormal liver tests (% of patients) | ||
| Alkaline phosphatase | 88.9 | 60.6 |
| Aspartate aminotransferase | 48.2 | 22.4 |
| Bilirubin | 44.1 | 36.7 |