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Table 1 Published cases of hepatic vascular thrombosis after RF or MWA of primary or secondary hepatic tumors

From: Thrombus formation in the suprahepatic inferior vena cava after microwave ablation in patients with hepatic metastasis: a case report

Author

Publication year

Country

Age (y)

/sex

Primary or secondary hepatic tumors

Number(incidence of thrombosis)

Thrombosed vein

Time interval (d)

Associated thrombosis

risk factors

Catalano et al. [11]

2000

Italy

NA

Primary

2(6.2%)

Portal vein

NA

NA

Francica et al. [12]

2000

Italy

53/M

Secondary

1(NA)

Portal vein

7

Hypercoagulative states

Ng et al. [13]

2002

China

43/M

Primary

1(NA)

Portal vein

14

Tumors close to the vein

Baère et al. [14]

2003

France

NA

Primary or secondary

11(3.5%)

Portal vein or hepatic vein

NA

1. Pringle maneuvers

2. Cirrhotic livers

3. Vessels smaller than 3 mm in diameter

Zheng et al. [15]

2003

Japan

78/M

Primary

1(NA)

Portal vein

6

1. Tumors close to the vein

2. Cirrhotic livers

Akahane et al. [16]

2005

Japan

NA

Secondary

4(0.6%)

Portal vein

NA

1. Hypercoagulative states

2. Tumors close to the vein

Jansen et al. [17]

2005

Netherlands

NA

Primary or secondary

2(1.6)

Portal vein

4/7

Pringle maneuvers

Ng et al. [18]

2005

China

NA

Primary

3(1.9)

Portal vein or hepatic vein

NA

Tumors close to the vein

Baère et al. [19]

2008

France

NA

Primary or secondary

9(4.5)

Portal vein or hepatic vein

NA

PBO

Orlacchio et al. [20]

2010

Italy

84/M

Primary

1(NA)

Portal vein

7

Hypercoagulative states

Kim et al. [21]

2011

Korea

NA

Primary

15(1.4)

Portal vein or hepatic vein

(0-128)

1. Pringle maneuvers

2. Cirrhotic livers

3. Vessels smaller than 3 mm in diameter

Chang et al. [22]

2012

Korea

NA

Primary

1(2.6)

Portal vein

NA

Cirrhotic livers

Koda et al. [23]

2012

Japan

NA

Primary

32(0.2)

Portal vein

NA

NA

Desolneux et al. [24]

2014

France

NA

Secondary

3(2.0)

Portal vein or hepatic vein

NA

NA

Fang et al. [25]

2014

China

NA

Primary

1(0.8)

Portal vein

NA

NA

Kai et al. [26]

2015

China

NA

Primary

1(2.9)

Portal vein

NA

NA

Singh et al. [27]

2016

England

69/M

Secondary

1(NA)

Hepatic vein

30

Tumors close to the vein

Hairol et al. [28]

2017

Korea

66/M

Secondary

1(NA)

Portal vein

14

1. Cirrhotic livers

2. Hypercoagulative states

Verloh et al. [29]

2019

Germany

NA

Primary

1(0.9)

Portal vein

NA

NA

Maeda et al. [30]

2020

Japan

NA

Primary

35(0.4)

Portal vein

NA

NA

  1. Abbreviations: PBO percutaneous balloon occlusion; NA not available; MWA microwave ablation; RFA radiofrequency ablation