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The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 2 Comparison between the two studied groups regarding baseline amphiregulin and AFP

From: Amphiregulin as a novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of hepatocellular carcinoma before and after locoregional treatment

Variables

HCC (N = 30)

Cirrhosis (N = 30)

^P value

AFP (ng/mL)

 Mean ± SD

725.4 ± 675.2

89.0 ± 102.0

< 0.001*

 Range

110.0–2243.0

9.0–356.0

Amphiregulin (pg/mL)

 Mean ± SD

23.2 ± 11.5

11.1 ± 7.1

< 0.001*

 Range

6.4–49.7

1.4–29.0

  1. ^Independent t test
  2. *Significant
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