Table 4.
Distribution of patients in the different staging systems at the time of each procedure
| MELD | Points |
| Minimum value | 6 |
| 1st quartile | 8 |
| Median | 9 |
| 3rd quartile | 10 |
| Maximum value | 29 |
| ITA.LI.CA, n (%) | |
| 0–1 | 307 (19.1) |
| 2 | 395 (24.5) |
| 3 | 433 (26.9) |
| ≥4 | 475 (29.5) |
| CLIP, n (%) | |
| 0 | 470 (29.2) |
| 1 | 633 (39.3) |
| 2 | 436 (27.1) |
| 3 | 65 (4.1) |
| 4 | 6 (0.3) |
| 5 | 0 (0) |
| MESH, n (%) | |
| 0 | 394 (24.5) |
| 1 | 682 (42.4) |
| 2 | 396 (24.6) |
| 3 | 122 (7.5) |
| 4 | 15 (0.9) |
| 5 | 1 (0.1) |
| MESIAH | |
| Minimum value | 3.759 |
| 1st quartile | 5.222 |
| Median | 5.641 |
| 3rd quartile | 6.032 |
| Maximum value | 8.876 |
| JIS, n (%) | |
| 0 | 155 (9.6) |
| 1 | 603 (37.5) |
| 2 | 743 (46.2) |
| 3 | 105 (6.5) |
| 4 | 4 (0.2) |
| 5 | 0 (0) |
| HKCL, n (%) | |
| I | 888 (55.2) |
| IIa | 281 (17.4) |
| IIb | 243 (15.1) |
| IIIa | 29 (1.8) |
| IIIb | 65 (4.1) |
| IVa | 56 (3.5) |
| IVb | 8 (0.5) |
| Va | 30 (1.8) |
| Vb | 10 (0.6) |
1,610 procedures were performed in 1,058 patients. The table reports the distribution of patients at the time of each procedure. Therefore, data from the same patient may have been included >1 time. ITA.LI.CA, Italian Liver Cancer; CLIP, Cancer of the Liver Italian Program; MESH, model to estimate survival for hepatocellular carcinoma; MESIAH, Model to Estimate Survival In Ambulatory HCC patients; JIS, Japan Integrated Staging system; HKLC, Hong Kong Liver Cancer.