The Enlargement of Abdominal Lymph Nodes Is a Characteristic of Autoimmune Liver Disease

Table 4

The morphological characteristics of lymph nodes in patients with AILD and viral hepatitis.

Features	AILD	Viral hepatitis
	()	()
Number
=1	4 (8%)	2 (9.5%)	0.999
>1	46 (92%)	19 (90.5%)
Aspect ratio ()
<2	37 (74%)	15 (71.4%)	0.823
≥2	13 (26%)	6 (28.6%)
The maximum cross-sectionalarea of LN (cm^2)	1.34 (0.82, 2.07)	0.96 (0.68, 1.32)	0.017

Number: lymph node number. Aspect ratio: longest axis ()/perpendicular axis (). Maximum cross-sectional area of LN: . The analysis of the number and aspect ratio of LN between AILD and viral hepatitis was completed by the test. The analysis of the maximum cross-sectional area of LN between AILD and viral hepatitis was performed using the test. was considered statistically significant. AILD: autoimmune liver disease; LN: lymph nodes.