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Table 3 Surgery and pathology

From: Liver resection of hepatocellular carcinoma in HIV-HCV co-infected patients: a retrospective case series

 

HIV+/HCV+

HIV−/HCV+

p-value

Diagnosis-to-treatment interval (months), mean ± SD

1.2 ± 0.55

2.39 ± 1.09

0.039

Type of procedure, n (%)

 Resection

5 (100)

10 (90.9)

0.99

 Resection + ablation

0

1 (9.09)

Surgical procedure, n (%)

 Open

2 (40)

8 (72.72)

0.299

 Laparoscopy

3 (60)

3 (27.27

Type of resection, n (%)

 Wedge resection

2 (40)

9 (81.81)

0.244

 Segmentectomy

3 (60)

2 (18.18)

Pringle maneuver, n (%)

1 (20)

3 (27.27)

0.99

Operative time (min), mean ± SD

244 ± 89

306 ± 50

0.232

Intraoperative transfusions, n (%)

 Red blood cells

1 (20)

4 (36.36)

0.99

Histological evaluation

 Number of nodules, n

5

14a

 

 Mean (range)

1 (1; 1)

1.27 (1; 2)

0.242

 Largest nodule diameter (mm)

27 ± 14.83

30.7 ± 12.46

0.53

 mean ± SD

Edmondson-Steiner grading, n (%)

 1–2

4 (80)

7 (63.63)

0.99

 3–4

1 (20)

4 (36.36)

 

Microvascular invasion, n (%)

2 (40)

3 (27.27)

0.99

Satellitosis, n (%)

1 (20)

1 (9.09)

0.99

Residual tumor, n (%)

 R0

5 (100)

10 (90.91)

0.99

 R1

0

1 (9.09)

 

Surgical margin (mm), mean ± SD

6.25 ± 4.57

4 ± 3.57

0.473

  1. aSD standard deviation, one nodule identified at imaging was treated with RFA