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Background  Microvascular invasion (MVI) is recognized as a prognostic factor associated with poor outcome in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients after curative resection. It remains unclear, however, whether MVI can provide prognostic information for patients at a specific tumor stage.    Methods  Consecutive HCC patients who underwent curative resection in years of 2007 and 2008 (discovery cohort) were enrolled in this retrospective study. Patients were stratified by the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging system. The prognostic significance of MVI for overall survival (OS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS) was studied in each subgroup. The clinical significance of MVI was validated in another cohort of patients underwent curative surgery in the year of 2006 (validation cohort).    Results  Of the 1540 patients in the discovery cohort, 389 (25.3%) patients had detectable MVI. Occurrence rates of MVI in the BCLC stage 0, A, and B subgroups were 12.4, 26.2, and 34.4%, respectively. In univariate analysis, MVI was associated with poor OS and RFS ( P  < 0.001 for both) in HCC patients at stage A, with poor OS in patients at stage 0 ( P  = 0.028), and with poor RFS at stage B ( P  = 0.039). In multivariate analysis, MVI was an independent risk factor for OS (HR = 1.431, 95% CI, 1.163–1.761,  P  < 0.001) and RFS (HR = 1.400, 95% CI, 1.150–1.705,  P  = 0.001) in patients at stage A; and an independent risk factor for RFS ( P  = 0.043) in patients at stage B. A similar clinical significance of MVI was found in the validation cohort.    Conclusions  MVI has limited prognostic value for HCC patients at BCLC stages 0 and B. For those at stage A, MVI was associated with patient survival and may help to select patients with high risk of disease recurrence.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12885-017-3050-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Microvascular invasion has limited clinical values in hepatocellular carcinoma patients at Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stages 0 or B