Table 3.
Comparison of RF ablation related findings according to therapeutic success
| Variable | 6 Months |
1 Year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Therapeutic success | Non-therapeutic success | P-value | Therapeutic success | Non-therapeutic success | P-value | |
| Number | 18 | 4 | 20 | 2 | ||
| Age (yr) | 45.0±14.5 | 44.1±13.0 | 0.310 | 44.5±13.9 | 60.0±0.0 | 0.082 |
| Delivery energy (kcal) | 3.7±4.9 | 1.9±0.8 | 0.386 | 3.7±4.7 | 1.5±0.0 | 0.485 |
| Running time (sec) | 509.7±398.7 | 345.0±57.5 | 0.859 | 500.1±382.1 | 420.0±0.0 | 0.563 |
| Number of session | 1.5±0.6 | 2.0±0.0 | 0.029 | 1.5±0.6 | 2.0±0.0 | 0.247 |
| 1 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Undertreated area | 0.010 | 0.121 | ||||
| Present | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | ||
| Absent | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | ||
| Post-procedural vascularity | 0.029 | 0.195 | ||||
| Present | 6 | 4 | 8 | 2 | ||
| Absent | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Radiologist | 0.115 | 0.494 | ||||
| S.H.P | 9 | 4 | 11 | 2 | ||
| S.J.K. | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
Data are indicated as the number of patients or mean±SD.