Large-scale data from real-life practice of percutaneous liver thermal ablation from an international registry: unconditionally trustful Atlas or colossus with feet of clay?

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.

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.

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Technical and clinical outcomes of microwave ablation for HCC: a single-center retrospective analysis of percutaneous ultrasound-guided, intraoperative ultrasound-guided and CT hepatic arteriography-guided approaches.La Radiologia medica · 2026
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2. Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Current use of percutaneous ablation in renal tumors-an analysis of the registry of the German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy.European radiology · 2026
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  Current use of percutaneous image-guided tumor ablation for the therapy of liver tumors: lessons learned from the registry of the German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy (DeGIR) 2018-2022.2024

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Abstract

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