Table 1.

Publications retrieved after a literature search for articles on intraoperative radiofrequency ablation of liver metastases

Author(s)	IRFA, n	HCC	Combined resection + IRFA	Mortality	Morbidity
Pearson et al. (1999)³²	92	36.9%	19.5%	0%	3.3%

Curley et al. (1999)¹	92	23.9%	19.5%	0%	3.2%

Jiao et al. (1999)²⁶	30	20%	43.3%	3.3%	10%

Wood et al. (2000)⁴¹	39	–	51.2%	5%	5%

Elias et al. (2000)²	21	0%	80.9%	0%	47.6%

Wong et al. (2001)⁴⁰	39	5%	48.7%	0%	20.5%

Risse et al. (2001)³⁴	19	31.5%	52.6%	5.2%	26.3%

Stippel et al. (2002)³⁷	23	0%	100%	0%	17.3%

Stella et al. (2002)³⁶	21	19%	61.9%	0%	14.3%

Choy et al. (2002)¹⁷	12	–	75%	0%	33.3%

Pawlik et al. (2003)³¹	172	2.9%	100%	2.3%	19.8%

de Baere et al. (2003)¹⁹	124	–	95.1%	2.4%	9.6%

Bleicher et al. (2003)¹⁵	66	–	100%	0%	12.1%

Oshowo et al. (2003)³⁰	16	0%	62.5%	0%	12.5%

Curley et al. (2004)¹⁸	382	14.6%	48.1%	0.52%	8.6%

Poon et al. (2004)³³	56	–	0%	1.8%	16%

Tepel et al. (2004)³⁸	26	–	42.3%	0%	27%

Basdanis et al. (2004)¹⁴	18	0%	11.1%	0%	0%

Jansen et al. (2005)²⁵	108	10.6%	34.2%	1.8%	20.3%

Elias et al. (2005)²⁰	63	0%	100%	0%	27%

Navarra et al. (2005)²⁹	53	0%	22.6%	1.8%	14%

Ritz et al. (2006)³⁵	6	0%	0%	0%	0%

Hildebrand et al. (2006)²²	68	5.8%	52.9%	2.9%	7.3%

Hildebrand et al. (2006)²³	64	–	56.3%	0%	12.5%

Chhabra et al. (2006)¹⁶	27	44.4%	0%	0%	3.7%

Low et al. (2006)²⁸	13	–	0%	0%	0%

Gomez et al. (2006)²¹	5	–	0%	0%	0%

Topal et al. (2007)³⁹	49	20.4%	24.5%	2%	34.7%

Hubert et al. (2007)²⁴	32	12.5%	72%	0%	18%

Kornprat et al. (2007)²⁷	19	0%	100%	5.2%	31.5%

IRFA, intraoperative radiofrequency ablation; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma