Figures & data
Figure 1. The flow diagram of patient selection. LB, Lobectomy; MA, microwave ablation; NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer.
Table 1. Base-line characteristic of the patients.
Figure 2. Over-all survival (A) and Disease-free survival (B) cures correspond to patients who were initially enrolled for this study (Microwave ablation, black-dashed line; Lobectomy, black-solid line).
Table 2. Univariate and multivariate analysis of prognostic factors.
Figure 3. The negative relationship between over-all survival and tumour size (A) (tumour size <3.0 cm, black-dashed line; 3.0 cm < tumour size <5.0 cm, black-solid line). The over-all survival cures for tumour size <3.0 cm (B) and 3.0 cm < tumour size <5.0 cm (C) (Microwave ablation, black-dashed line; Lobectomy, black-solid line).
Figure 4. The negative relationship between over-all survival and clinical stage (A). The over-all survival cures for stage IA (B) and stage IB (C) (Microwave ablation, black-dashed line; Lobectomy, black-solid line).
Table 3. The major and minor complications between two groups in this study.