Table 1.

The correlation of CD63 expression with clinicopathological features of HCC

	Case number	Weak staining	Strong staining	P value
Age (y)
>60	18	10	8	.931
≤60	57	31	26
Gender
Male	62	33	29	.584
Female	13	8	5
Liver cirrhosis
No	27	15	12	.908
Yes	48	26	22
Tumour size
<5 cm	36	14	22	.008*
≥5 cm	39	27	12
Metastasis
M0	71	37	34	.009*
M1	4	4	0
AJCC stage
I, II	45	18	27	.002*
III, IV	30	23	7
Total	75	41	34

^* P < .05 was considered as a significant association among the variables.