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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Oncol. 2020 Mar 7;15(7):1200–1209. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2020.02.022

Table 2.

Cryoablation Treatment Characteristics

Characteristic Value
Number of tumors 224
Number of procedures 167
Number of tumors treated per procedure, median SD (range) 1.0 ± 0.7 (1–5)
 1 126/167 (75)
 2 30/167 (18)
 3 7/167 (4)
 4 3/167 (2)
 5 1/167 (1)
Number of tumors treated per patient, median SD (range) 1.0 ± 1.2 (1–6)
 1 79/128 (62)
 2 23/128 (18)
 3 15/128 (12)
 4 5/128 (4)
 5 2/128 (2)
 6 4/128 (3)
Procedure time, min (SD) 77.7 ± 37.9
Freeze duration per tumor, min (SD) 20.6 ± 4.3
Mean number of needles per tumor diameter
 0.5–1.0 cm 1.5 ± 0.5
 1.1–2.0 cm 1.9 ± 0.6
 2.1–3.0 cm 2.4 ± 0.5
 ≥3.1 cm 3.0 ± 1.4
Anesthesia
 General 115 (69%)
 Conscious sedation 49 (29%)
 Local 3 (2%)
Median overall hospital stay, days (range) 1.0 (0–13)