Abstract
There has been no comparative study of the clinicopathological features of HCC patients who are seropositive for alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) alone and those who are seropositive for des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin (DCP) alone. The authors, thus, performed this comparative study. The clinicopathological features of patients with solitary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), who underwent a hepatectomy were compared among the four below groups according to the seropositivity of AFP and DCP: group A, seronegative for both AFP below 20 ng/mL and DCP below 40 mAU/mL; group B, seropositive for AFP above 100 ng/mL and seronegative for DCP; group C, seronegative for AFP and seropositive for DCP above 100 mAU/mL; and group D, seropositive for both AFP and DCP. Group B patients showed a higher incidence of HCC with an indistinct margin, and a somewhat higher incidence of small HCC less than 2 cm in greatest dimension compared with group C patients. By contrast, group C patients had a higher frequency of HCC with a distinct margin compared with that of an indistinct margin, large tumors more than 3 cm compared with that of small tumors less than 2 cm, and a somewhat higher frequency of moderately to poorly differentiated HCC compared with that of we...Continue Reading
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