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Hepatocellular Carcinoma More Than 3 cm in Diameter: A Systematic Review of Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization Plus Percutaneous Ethanol Injection versus Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization Alone Table 1 Characteristics of RCTs included in the meta-analysis.
Study ID Group
Age Child-Pugh Tumor size Number of tumors
Bartolozzi et al. 1995 [5 ] TACE + PEI 26
14/12/0
18/8 TACE 27
11/16/0
14/13
Deng 2004 [10 ] TACE + PEI 22
13/6/3
— TACE 29
16/8/5
—
Ferrari et al. 2004 [3 ] TACE + PEI 19 — 16/3/0
18/1 TACE 21 — 10/11/0
20/1
Guo et al. 2012 [11 ] TACE + PEI 60
—
— TACE 60
—
—
Huang et al. 2000 [12 ] TACE + PEI 68 45.2 — ≥40 — TACE 53 45.2 — ≥40 —
Hu et al. 2011 [13 ] TACE + PEI 18 46 15/3/0 78 — TACE 18 67 16/2/0 81 —
Kato et al. 1994 [6 ] TACE + PEI 24 61.3 19/5/0 65 — TACE 22 64.5 17/5/0 71 —
Liu et al. 2007 [14 ] TACE + PEI 38 47 22/7/0 >30 25/13 TACE 29 49 30/8/0 >30 18/11
Wang et al. 2005 [15 ] TACE + PEI 32 — — >50 — TACE 32 — — >50 —
Peihong et al. 1998 [16 ] TACE + PEI 52
40/8/2
— TACE 50
40/9/3
—
Xu et al. 2002 [17 ] TACE + PEI 23 — — >50 — TACE 22 — — >50 —
Zan et al. 2008 [18 ] TACE + PEI 40 — — >30 — TACE 40 — — >30 —
