Significance and relationship between infiltrating inflammatory cell and tumor angiogenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma tissues

Table 1 Counts of TAM, MC, and MV in HCC tissues and pericarcinomatous liver tissues (mean±SD)

	TAM	MC	MV
HCC tissues	69.31± 11.58	16.74±5.67	70.11±12.45
Pericarcinomatous	40.23±10.36b	7.59±4.18b	38.52±11.16b
liver tissues

^bP＜0.01 vs HCC tissues

Table 2 Relationship of the counts of TAM, MC, and MV with the clinicopathological characteristics of HCC (mean ± SD)

Pathologic	n	TAM	MC	MV
characteristics
Stage of HCC
I	11	68.86 ± 10.23	13.68 ± 5.21	65.86 ± 12.05
II	31	68.95 ± 9.82	17.03 ± 6.11	67.84 ± 11.54
III	23	70.11 ± 13.16	19.95 ± 4.29a	72.11 ± 10.84
IV	5	69.84 ± 12.57	23.56 ± 3.86a	68.70 ± 9.53
Tumor size
≤5 cm	25	69.32 ± 10.17	16.57 ± 5.56	66.56 ± 11.84
5.1–10 cm	29	71.35 ± 9.54	16.98 ± 4.81	65.84 ± 10.53
>10 cm	16	70.83 ± 12.11	17.02 ± 6.12	73.13 ± 11.30
Metastasis
Yes	29	68.36 ± 12.17	16.99 ± 6.49	73.49 ± 12.32c
No	41	69.14 ± 11.69	16.76 ± 6.88	64.39 ± 13.17

^aP<0.05 vs stage I;

^cP<0.05 vs non-transferred.