Table 2. A. IRE treatment parameters of the presented patient cohort.
A. IRE Parameters | |
Total number of procedures | 471 |
Total number of patients | 429 |
Mean number of electrodes used | 5 ± 1 |
Mean procedure time | 120 ± 34 min |
Mean set voltage-to-distance-ratio | 1518.13 ± 204.05 V/cm |
Mean ablated ablated /%* | 72.4 ± 25.9% |
B. Treatment Extent | |
Uni-lobar or focal (≤50%) | 123 |
Bi-lobar but not whole gland (>50% and ≤90%) |
153 |
Whole gland (>90%) | 134 |
Cannot be determined or recurrence | 63 |
C. Re-treatments categorized | |
Sum of re-treatments | 43 |
Tumor extent/prostate-size related | 8 |
Incomplete ablation/tumor residue | 3 |
In-field recurrence | 12 |
Out-of-field recurrence | 16 |
Extra prostatic cancer (i.e. seminal vesicles) | 3 |
*according to MRI evaluation 24h post IRE.