A Novel Inflammation-Based Prognostic Score: The Fibrinogen/Albumin Ratio Predicts Prognoses of Patients after Curative Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Table 1

Relationship between preoperative Fib/Alb ratio and clinicopathological characteristics.

Clinical and pathologic indexes	Cases	Fib/Alb ratio		value
		>0.062 ()	≤0.062 ()
Gender
Male	128	89	39	0.147
Female	23	12	11
Age (years)
>50	76	49	27	0.605
≤50	75	52	23
HBs antigen
(+)	132	88	44	1.00
(−)	19	13	6
Cirrhosis
Yes	121	82	39	0.668
No	30	19	11
AFP (μg/L)
>20	104	69	35	1.00
≤20	47	32	15
Tumor size (cm)
>5	89	65	24	0.078
≤5	62	36	26
Tumor encapsulation
Complete	69	46	23	1.00
None	82	55	27
Microvascular invasion
Yes	59	46	13	0.022
No	92	55	37
Tumor differentiation
I-II	105	67	38	0.263
III-IV	46	34	12
BCLC stage
0 + A	32	16	16	0.033
B + C	119	85	34
ALBI grade
1	89	51	38	0.003
2 + 3	62	50	12

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