Najafi, Arash http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5151-4672
de Baere, Thierry
Purenne, Edouard
Bayar, Amine
Al Ahmar, Marc
Delpla, Alexandre
Roux, Charles
Madani, Khaled
Assouline, Jessica
Deschamps, Frederic
Tselikas, Lambros
Article History
Received: 21 September 2020
Revised: 22 November 2020
Accepted: 28 December 2020
First Online: 20 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Thierry de Baere.
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: One of the authors (Amine Bayar) is a statistician.
: Written informed consent was obtained from every patient.
: The study was approved by our institutional review board and ethical approval was waived according to institute standards regarding retrospective patient chart reviews.
: Most of the patients in the control group were reported in a previous study regarding general efficacy of RFA without assessment of factors influencing local tumor progression, as outlined in the manuscript.
: • retrospective• matched cases and controls• performed at one institution