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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: ISRN Minim Invasive Surg. 2012;2012:942364. doi: 10.5402/2012/942364

Table 3.

Local tumor recurrence. Total procedural and satellite recurrences broken down by anatomical location of the tumor. Of the 4 observed procedural recurrences, 3 occurred in a single patient on one tumor abutting the hilum. Following additional ablations, a total of 7 (4.6%) recurrences remained, all of which were satellite. Therefore, the overall ablation effectiveness in was 95%.

Location Number of tumors Total local recurrences Procedural (%) Satellite (%)
Liver 116 11 0% 100%
Lung 33 6 67% 33%
Soft tissue
Retroperitoneal 2 0
Intraperitoneal 2 1 0% 100%
Bone 6 0
Superficial 2 0

Total* 151* 18 4 14

Total% 12% 3% 9%

Total (following reablation) 7 0 7

Total% (following reablation) 5% 0% 5%
*

Tumor values overlap in the case of repeat ablations. Actual number of distinct tumors is 151.