Table 1.

Correlation between the clinicopathological characteristics and miR‐384 and PTN expression in HCC

Pathological factors	n	No. of patients			No. of patients
		miR‐384	miR‐384	P	PTN	PTN	P
		Low	High		Negative (−, ±)	Positive (+, ++)
Total no. of patients	80	51	29		33	47
Age (years)
<50	32	18	14	>0.05	13	19	>0.05
≥50	48	33	15		20	28
Sex
Male	61	39	22	>0.05	25	36	>0.05
Female	19	12	7		8	11
HBV
Absent	17	7	10	<0.05a	11	6	<0.05a
Present	63	44	19		22	41
Tumour size (cm)
<5	28	15	13	>0.05	12	16	>0.05
≥5	52	36	16		21	31
Cirrhosis
Absent	23	12	11	>0.05	14	9	<0.05a
Present	57	39	18		19	38
Adjacent organ invasion
Absent	60	34	26	<0.05a	29	31	<0.05a
Present	20	17	3		4	16
Microscopic vascular invasion
Absent	57	32	25	<0.05a	28	29	<0.05a
Present	23	19	4		5	18
PVTT
Absent	65	43	22	>0.05	27	38	>0.05
Present	15	8	7		6	9
TNM tumour stage
I + II	55	32	27	<0.05a	30	25	<0.05a
III + IV	25	23	2		3	22
AFP
≤400	49	33	16	>0.05	17	32	>0.05
>400	31	18	13		16	15

HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma; HBV: hepatitis B virus; TNM: tumour node metastasis; PVTT: portal vein tumour thrombus; ‘−‘and ‘±’, negative; ‘+’ and ‘++’, positive.

^a P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.