Surveillance Program for Diagnosis of HCC in Liver Cirrhosis: Role of Ultrasound Echo Patterns

Table 5

Distribution of HCC and BCLC staging in relation to the echo patterns at enrolment.

Echo pattern at enrolment	H	BL	C	CSNP	CLNP
	HCC
BCLC Stage
0	0	0	15	1	6
A	0	0	17	3	5
B	0	0	2	0	0
C	0	0	1	0	0
D	0	0	0	0	0	; = NS

H, homogeneous; BL, bright liver; C, coarse pattern; CSNP, coarse small nodular pattern; CLNP, coarse large nodular pattern; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; BCLC, Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer.