Smits, Maarten L. J.
Wijnen, Niek https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1700-6930
Bruijnen, Rutger C. G.
Brinkman, Willem M.
Willemse, Peter-Paul M.
Ramdhani, Khalil
Barendrecht, Maurits M.
Meijer, Richard
Vonken, Evert-Jan P. A.
Article History
Received: 25 November 2024
Accepted: 30 March 2025
First Online: 28 April 2025
Declarations
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: MS is a consultant for Terumo/Quirem Medical, Philips, Medtronic and Swedish Orphan Biovitrum. MS is a speaker for Medtronic and proctor for GD Medical. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The data used in this study were extracted from the ‘Minimally Invasive Thermal Ablation (MISTRAL) study’ database, a registry of all thermal ablation procedures performed at the University Medical Center Utrecht (Utrecht, The Netherlands). Permission was granted by the local institutional review board (No. 21/709), and the requirement for informed consent was waived.
: Consent for publication was obtained from the individual demonstrating the prone position in Fig. . Additional consent for publication is not required for this type of study.