TABLE 1 Clinicopathological Summary of Radiofrequency Ablation

From: Immunohistochemical Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Setting of Ongoing Necrosis after Radiofrequency Ablation

Case No.

Age (y), Sex

Duration after RF (w)

Localization (Size, mm) of Tumor

Necrosis

Efficiency (%) Ongoing Necrosis

Viable

Surgical cases

1

71, M

5.5

S4 (18 × 12)

70

30

0

   

S6 (5 × 2)—not ablated

  

100

2

58, M

2.0

S5 (50 × 43)

50

23

27

3

60, M

2.0

S5 (35 × 27)

80

18

2

Biopsy cases

4

40, M

2.0

S4 (18 × 14)

40

60

0a

5

60, M

4.0

S3 (25 × 23)

70

30

0

6

67, F

2.0

S7 (26 × 26)

0

100

0a

  

4.0

 

80

20

0a

  1. aaViable cells remaining were identified as nonneoplastic hepatocytes.