Table 3.

Correlation between the ablation energy and significantly elevated cytokines

	Energy vs. IL-2 24 h post-MWA	Energy vs. IL-1β 15 d post-MWA	Energy vs. IL-6 15 d post-MWA	Energy vs. IL-8 15 d post-MWA	Energy vs. IL-10 15 d post-MWA	Energy vs. TNF-α 15 d post-MWA
Spearman’s r	0.3501	−0.06957	0.2911	0.1986	0.1205	0.04439
P value (one-tailed)	0.0107*	0.3288	0.0291*	0.1009	0.2208	0.3887

*, p < 0.05