Table III.

Relationship between Cx32 expression and clinicopathological parameters of 76 HCC samples.

Variables	n	Cx32		χ2 value	P-value
		−	+
Age (years)
<60	60	33	27	0.289	0.778
≥60	16	10	6
Sex
Male	61	34	27	0.089	1.000
Female	15	9	6
Tumor size (cm)
≤5	43	22	21	1.182	0.352
>5	33	21	12
Edmondson type
I–II	48	22	26	6.124	0.017a
III–IV	28	21	7
TNM stage
I–II	54	30	24	0.080	0.805
III–IV	22	13	9
Hepatopathy background
Present	60	35	25	0.357	0.581
Absent	16	8	8
Lymph node metastasis
Negative	62	31	31	5.930	0.018a
Positive	14	12	2
Intrahepatic vascular embolism
Present	20	12	8	0.129	0.796
Absent	56	31	25

^aP<0.05;

χ² test.