Table 1.
General characteristics of 98 HCC patients and 50 patients with benign liver lesions.
| Characteristics | Study group (98 cases) | Control group (50 cases) | |
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| Gender | Male | 59 | 32 |
| Female | 39 | 18 | |
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| Age | 57.32 ± 6.81 | 55.67 ± 8.42 | |
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| Clinical stage | Stage I | 18 | |
| Stage II | 47 | ||
| Stage III | 24 | ||
| Stage IV | 9 | ||
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| Degree of differentiation | Highly differentiated | 37 | |
| Moderately differentiated | 26 | ||
| Lowly differentiated | 20 | ||
| Undifferentiated | 15 | ||
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| Disease type | Hepatitis pseudotumor | 5 | |
| Hepatic hemangioma | 9 | ||
| Cirrhotic hyperplastic nodules | 23 | ||
| Hepatic granuloma | 13 | ||