Table 2.

Correlation of CD68⁺ macrophage with known clinicopathologic characteristics in peritumoral liver tissue and in tumor tissue in 149 HCC cases

	Peri-CD68 expression			Intra-CD68 expression
Features	Low	High	p value	Low	High	p value
Age, year
≤ 55	35	56		43	48
> 55	32	26	0.034	30	28	0.358
Gender
Male	40	42		39	43
Female	27	40	0.192	34	33	0.412
a-Fetoprotein (ng/ml)
≤ 400	46	64		55	55
> 400	21	18	0.134	18	21	0.411
Tumor size (mean ± SD, cm)
≤ 5	53	69		61	61
> 5	14	13	0.280	12	15	0.379
Encapsulation/none
Complete	38	36		39	35
Incomplete	29	46	0.082	34	41	0.231
Tumor differentiation
I-II	51	64		60	55
III-IV	16	18	0.466	13	21	0.109
BCLC stage
I	54	54		49	59
II-III	13	28	0.033	24	17	0.105
Recurrence
Yes	36	41		37	40
No	31	41	0.387	36	36	0.471