Chronic hepatitis B: Enlarged perihepatic lymph nodes correlated with hepatic histopathology

Table 1 The size and signal intensity indexes of lymph nodes greater than 5 mm in shortest diameter in hepatic hilum (mean ± SD)

Grading	Staging	Sample size (n)	Size indexes (mm2)	SI indexes
G0 (controls)	S0	18	43.52 ± 58.38	0.572 ± 0.599
G1	S0	6	63.33 ± 74.27	0.474 ± 0.519
	S1	3	92.48 ± 87.29	0.720 ± 0.627
	S2	2	137.50 ± 50.20	1.130 ± 0.500
	S3	1	0	0
G2	S1	6	221.16 ± 68.83	1.218 ± 0.167
	S2	10	268.22 ± 164.69	1.213 ± 0.210
	S3	1	162.06	1.878
	S4	2	514.09 ± 141.30	1.301 ± 0.204
G3	S1	3	404.33 ± 191.74	1.172 ± 0.153
	S2	6	647.02 ± 238.31	1.169 ± 0.171
	S3	9	413.88 ± 417.78	1.094 ± 0.454
	S4	2	511.21 ± 172.53	1.383 ± 0.152
G4	S2	4	398.09 ± 219.81	1.209 ± 0.350
	S3	7	471.95 ± 154.13	1.065 ± 0.247
	S4	5	315.45 ± 240.52	1.114 ± 0.073

SI: Signal intensity.

Table 2 The number of lymph nodes greater than 5 mm in shortest diameter in hepatic hilum among grading groups n (%)

Grading	Sample size (n)	Subjects with various numbers of lymph nodes
		0	≥1	≥2	≥3
G0	18	9 (50.00)	9 (50.00)	1 (5.56)	0
G1	12	5 (41.67)	7 (58.33)	2 (16.67)	1 (8.33)
G2	19	0	19 (100)	15 (78.95)	10 (56.63)
G3	20	1 (5.00)	19 (95.00)	18 (90.00)	16 (80.00)
G4	16	0	16 (100)	15 (93.75)	10 (62.50)
Total	85	15 (17.65)	70 (82.35)	51 (60.00)	37 (43.53)