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. 2021 May;11(5):1751–1762. doi: 10.21037/qims-20-622

Table 3. Results of patients with AWE after HIFU treatment.

Variables Mean ± SD N (%)
Lesion volume, cm3 7.64±8.95
Non-perfused volume, cm3 18.34±24.08
Rate of non-perfused volume, % 1.77±1.08
Average power, J 133.50±23.34
Total treatment time, min 64±36.77
Total sonication time, s 371±29.70
Total sonication volume, cm3 5.70 ±1.27
Sonication time for 1 cm3, s/cm3 75.76±32.18
Sonication intensity, s/h 426.14±272.67
Total energy, J 49,900±12,586.5
EEF, J/cm3 9,231.06±4,269.43
CEUS evaluation of lesion incomplete 7 (8.54)
Intraprocedural VAS* 5.50±0.71
Postprocedural VAS 1±1.41

*, P<0.01, Student’s t-tests. AWE, abdominal wall endometriosis; HIFU, high-intensity focused ultrasound; SD, standard deviation; EEF, energy efficiency factor; CEUS, contrast-enhanced ultrasound; VAS, visual analogue scale.