Scattered and rapid intrahepatic recurrences after radio frequency ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma

Table 1 Characteristics of the patients

	Scattered recurrence (–)	Scattered recurrence (+)	Total
n	127	11	138
Age	67.5±8.6	69.2±8.1	67.6±8.5
Sex (male/female	71/56	8月3日	79/59
Virus (HBV/HCV)	14/113	3月8日	17/121
Tumor size (mm)	24.3±13.7	20.1±5.7	24.0±13.5
Albumin (g/dL)	3.65±0.38	3.52±0.57	3.64±0.39
Bilirubin (mg/dL)	0.86±0.51	1.02±0.44	0.87±0.50
ALT (U/L)	48.4±28.3	56.0±17.8	49.0±28.5
Platelet (x104/mL)	10.9±5.5	9.0±3.6	10.7±5.5
Child–Pugh (CH1/A/B/C)a	3/102/20/2	0/5/5/1	3/107/25/3
Device and Protocolb
Original cool-tip	28	9	37
Modified cool-tip	28	0	28
Single-step LeVeen	37	2	39
Multi-step LeVeen	34	0	34
Prognosis (alive/death)b	87/40	3月8日	90/48
Observation period (mo)	27.1±11.0	24.0±11.5	26.9±11.1

^aP<0.05,

^bP<0.01 between the patients with and without scattered recurrences (χ² test).

¹CH: chronic hepatitis.