Table 1.

Clinicophathologic Correlation of LINC01554 Expression in HCC

Features	Total	LINC01554 expression		P
		Low (N=144)	High (N=23)
Gender
Male	148	126	22	0.477
Female	19	18	1
Age (years)
≤60	130	113	17
>60	37	31	6
Hepatitis B virus surface Ag
Negative	24	22	2	0.535
Positive	144	122	21
Microsatellite formation
No	121	103	18	0.620
Yes	46	41	5
Cirrhosis
No	33	29	4	0.507
Yes	134	115	19
Adjacent organs invasion
No	131	108	23	0.005*
Yes	36	36	0
Tumor size (cm)
≤7	97	79	18	0.041*
>7	70	65	5
Tumor staging (AJCC)
I-II	102	83	19	0.023*
III-IV	65	61	4

*P < 0.05 represents statistically significant and is shown in bold.