Is laparoscopy an advantage in the diagnosis of cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C virus infection?

Table 2 Demographic and clinical data of patients with and without laparoscopically diagnosed cirrhosis

	Laparoscopy		P
	Patients with signs of Cirrhosis (n = 21)	Patients without signs of Cirrhosis (n = 51)
Age (years)	56.36 ± 9.42	41.7 ± 11.2	< 0.02a
Duration of disease	23.2 ± 8.3	10.4 ± 5.68	< 0.02a
(years) (n = 44)
Sex ratio (m/f)	10/11	27/24	ns

^aStudent’s t-test (unpaired); ns = not significant, years were showed as mean ± standard deviation. Duration of disease could be evaluated in 44 cases by patients’ history.