Table I.

Basic clinicopathological parameters of included patients.

	Intratumoral S100A12 expression
Characteristics	Low	High	P-value
Age, years	52.31±11.74	51.12±8.89	0.573
Sex			0.759
Male	98	21
Female	16	4
HBsAg			0.526
Negative	17	2
Positive	97	23
Concurrent cirrhosis			0.832
No	89	20
Yes	25	5
AFP, ng/ml			0.726
≤20	36	7
>20	78	18
Tumor size, cm	5.60±3.64	5.68±4.21	0.924
Tumor number			0.765
Solitary	95	22
Multiple	19	3
Tumor encapsulation			0.060
No	55	7
Yes	59	18
Vascular tumor thrombus			0.383
No	66	12
Yes	48	13
Tumor differentiation			0.010a
I–II	88	13
III–IV	26	12
TNM stage			0.549
I–II	97	20
III–IV	17	5

^aP<0.05 by χ² test. HBsAg, hepatitis B surface antigen; AFP, α-fetoprotein; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.