Microwave ablation combined with hepatectomy for treatment of neuroendocrine tumor liver metastases

Table 1 Results of tests of normality

Continuous variable	P value
Age	0.036a
Number of lesions	0.000a
Number of hepatectomy	0.000a
Number of microwave ablation	0.001a
Blood loss	0.042a
Operative time	0.121
Postoperative hospital stay	0.019a
Bilirubin on the first day after surgery	0.000a
Duration of the fever	0.003a
Progression-free survival time	0.003a
Postoperative survival time	0.832

^aP < 0.05.

Table 2 Patients’ basic information

Patient No.	Sex	Age	Origin	Pathological grade	Bilobar or not	Number of lesions
1	Female	62	Colon	G2	Yes	23
2	Male	62	Unknown	G3	Yes	7
3	Male	53	Pancreatic	G2	Yes	41
4	Male	53	Unknown	G3	No	2
5	Female	69	Unknown	G3	Yes	43
6	Female	36	Unknown	G1	Yes	4
7	Female	63	Rectum	G3	No	2
8	Female	65	Pancreatic	G2	Yes	8
9	Female	37	Pancreatic	G3	No	4
10	Female	57	Pancreatic	G3	No	3
11	Female	63	Unknown	G2	Yes	2

Table 3 Surgical information

Patient No.	Number of hepatectomy	Number of microwave ablations	Blood loss (mL)	Operative time (min)
1	2	21	50	360
2	1	6	1500	427
3	3	38	3000	690
4	1	1	1500	480
5	18	25	2400	510
6	1	3	200	320
7	1	1	300	270
8	4	4	700	310
9	2	2	500	510
10	1	2	600	305
11	1	1	200	280

Table 4 Postoperative information

Patient No.	Postoperative hospital stay (d)	Bilirubin on first day after surgery (μmol/L)	Duration of the fever (d)
1	12	27.2	4
2	22	34.2	2
3	22	98.9	21
4	37	30.5	4
5	15	28.7	2
6	8	15.9	0
7	12	10.7	3
8	12	23.4	2
9	14	28.5	8
10	14	14.3	12
11	7	34.8	1

Table 5 Follow-up information

Patient No.	Progression-free survival time (mo)	Relapse before follow-up	Postoperative survival time (mo)	Died before follow-up
1	26	No	26	No
2	2.5	Yes	48	Yes
3	13	Yes	38	No
4	8	Yes	24	Yes
5	20	Yes	23	Yes
6	51	No	51	No
7	7	Yes	45	Yes
8	2	Yes	34	No
9	2	Yes	11	Yes
10	8	Yes	41	No
11	6	Yes	35	No