Table 1.
Grams of Blood Lost after Liver Biopsy at Each Biopsy Site with and without RF Ablation*
| No RF (n = 28)† |
RF (n = 30)‡ |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pig | Site 1 | Site 2 | Site 3 | Site 4 | Site 5 | Site 6 | Site 1 | Site 2 | Site 3 | Site 4 | Site 5 | Site 6 |
| A | 2.8 | 8.4 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | – | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | – |
| B | 5.5 | 4.3 | 13.8 | – | – | – | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | – | – |
| C | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 4.6 | 8.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 9.1 | 0.1 | 2.3 |
| D | 8.3 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 9.7 | 0.9 | – | 1.5 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | – | – |
| E | 9.8 | 5.7 | 13.2 | 1.3 | 70.0§ | – | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 14.5 | 0.2 |
| F | 15.4 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 22.9 | 2.5 | – | 0.0 | 0.2 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 14.5 | – |
*
P = .0086.
†
Mean blood loss ± SD, 5.50 mL ± 5.58; 95% CI, 3.33–7.66 mL.
‡
Mean blood loss ± SD, 2.03 mL ± 4.03; 95% CI, 0.53–3.54 mL.
§
This value was not included in mean, SD, or statistical comparison because it was more than 5 SDs greater than the mean of all the individual weights in that treatment group.