Table 4.
Frequency of each gross pathological type according to tumor size (resected 1,409 HCCs ≤5 cm)
| Gross pathological type | Tumor size, mm |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~10 | 11–15 | 16–20 | 21–30 | 31–40 | 41–50 | table | |
| Small nodular type with indistinct margin, n (%) Simple nodular type, n (%) Simple nodular type with extranodular growth, n (%) Confluent multinodular type, n (%) |
51 (48.6) 41 (39.0) 8 (7.6) 5 (4.8) |
44 (25.4) 75 (43.4) 32 (20.2) 22 (12.7) |
24 (8.6) 162 (58.1) 58 (20.8) 35 (12.5) |
24 (5.5) 236 (53.6) 118 (26.8) 62 (14.1) |
3 (1.2) 128 (49.7) 96 (37.4) 30 (11.7) |
0 (0) 80 (51.6) 55 (35.5) 20 (12.9) |
146 (10.4) 722 (51.2) 367 (26.0) 174 (12.4) |
| Total | 105 | 173 | 279 | 440 | 257 | 155 | 1,409 |
HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma.