Importance of SALL4 in the development and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

Table 1 Expression of SALL4 in hepatocellular carcinoma tissue, non-cancerous cirrhotic tissue, and liver hemangioma tissue

SALL4	Hemangioma tissue(n = 10)	Adjacent non-cancerous cirrhotic tissue(n = 44)	HCC tissue(n = 126)
-	10	42	68
+	0	2	27
++	0	0	21
+++	0	0	10
P value	0.496	0	0.009

P value was obtained by non-parametric test. P = 0.496 represents hemangioma group vs adjacent non-cancerous cirrhotic group; P < 0.001 represents adjacent non-cancerous cirrhotic group vs HCC group; P = 0.009 represents HCC group vs hemangioma group. HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma; SALL4: Sal-like protein 4.