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ReviewMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England)2020

Thermal Ablation versus SBRT in liver tumours: pros and cons.

Mauro Loi, Isacco Desideri, Luca Dominici, Giulio Francolini, Pietro Garlatti, Lucia Pia Ciccone, Giulia Stocchi, Viola Salvestrini, Icro Meattini, Lorenzo Livi

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Review in Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Thermal ablation for pulmonary oligometastases from hepatocellular carcinoma: initial experience and retrospective study.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2025
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  3. Article
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  5. Stereotactic radiotherapy for liver oligometastases.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mauro LoiRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Isacco DesideriRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy. isacco.desideri@unifi.it.
Luca DominiciRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Giulio FrancoliniRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Pietro GarlattiRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Lucia Pia CicconeRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Giulia StocchiRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Viola SalvestriniRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Icro MeattiniRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Lorenzo LiviRadiotherapy Department, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
University of Florence · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-surgical locally ablative treatments for primary liver cancer and liver metastases represent an effective therapeutic choice when surgery cannot be performed or is not indicated. Thermal ablative employing electric currents or electromagnetic fields have historically played an important role in this setting. Radiotherapy, in the last decades, due to a series of important technological development, has become an attractive option for the treatment of liver tumours, especially with the introduction of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. Published literature so far evidenced both for radiotherapy and thermal ablative techniques a benefit in terms of local control and other oncological outcomes; however, no direct prospective comparison between the two techniques have been published so far. The aim of this review is to summarize the technical and clinical implications of these treatment modalities and to identify criteria to allocate patients to one or another option in consideration of the expected efficacy. The main features and critical aspects of both thermoablative techniques and external beam radiation will also be covered in the present paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsCatheter AblationHumansLiver NeoplasmsRadiosurgeryRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicLiver metastasesPrimary liver cancerStereotactic body radiotherapyThermal Ablation

Identifiers

PMID32350765
OpenAlexW3020917967

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