CD8A and hepatocellular carcinoma: However, it did not show a significant correlation with the stage of peri-tumor fibrosis (rho = −0.10, p = 0.42) or with any of the intra-tumoral histopathological features investigated, including cell density (rho = −0.04, p = 0.76), TSR (rho = 0.03, p = 0.84), LR-HCC (rho = 0.05, p = 0.70), and CD8 + T cell infiltration (rho = 0.04, p = 0.76).