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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2019 Jan 9;42(4):569–576. doi: 10.1007/s00270-018-02160-y

Table 1.

Patient characteristics

Total patients 160
Primary site
    Lung 8 (5%)
    Pancreas 68 (43%)
    Small bowel 40 (25%)
    Other or unknown 44 (28%)

Degree of differentiation / grade
    Well differentiated, low grade 99 (62%)
    Well differentiated, intermediate to high grade; or moderately differentiated 46 (29%)
    Poorly differentiated or undifferentiated 7 (4%)
    Unknown 8 (5%)

Charlson comorbidity index (age adjusted) 6.4

Child Pugh score 5.2

ECOG performance status
    0 144 (90%)
    1 14 (9%)
    2 2 (1%)

< 100 μm particles used 77 (48%)

Arteriovenous shunt on angiography 4 (3%)

Particle embolization of extrahepatic vessel at initial treatment 9 (6%)

Extrahepatic disease 127 (79%)

Disease volume ≥50% of liver 59 (37%)

Degree of selectivity
    Lobar 126 (79%)
    Selective 34 (21%)

Symptomatic or functional NET 77 (48%)

Urgent inpatient treatment 4 (3%)

Additional therapy
    Radioembolization 4 (3%)
    Ablation 2 (1%)
    Liver resection 20 (13%)
    Primary resection 43 (27%)
    PRRT 18 (11%)
    Somatostatin analogue 58 (36%)
    Everolimus 21 (13%)
    Sunitinib 7 (4%)
    Cytotoxic chemotherapy 29 (18%)