Table II.
Associations between postoperative clinical features and expression of B7-H2 and B7-H3 in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
| B7-H2 expression | B7-H3 expression | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical feature | − | + | P-value | − | + | P-value |
| Recurring type | NS | NS | ||||
| Regional recurring | 6 | 6 | 2 | 10 | ||
| Distant recurring | 11 | 18 | 4 | 25 | ||
| Histological grade | NS | NS | ||||
| Well-differentiated | 5 | 6 | 3 | 8 | ||
| Moderately differentiated | 13 | 19 | 5 | 27 | ||
| Poorly differentiated | 10 | 10 | 2 | 18 | ||
| Extrahepatic metastasis | 0.041a | 0.036a | ||||
| Yes | 8 | 17 | 1 | 24 | ||
| No | 20 | 18 | 9 | 29 | ||
a
P<0.05. NS, not significant.