Imaging-based prognostic factors in patients undergoing thermal ablation for colorectal liver metastases. A retrospective study on the role of sarcopenia parameters and tumor burden score

Key Points

• This research aims to investigate the prognostic factors associated with 1-year survival in patients undergoing thermal ablation for colorectal liver metastases.
• Retrospective analysis of patients treated with thermal ablation for colorectal liver metastases.
• Assessment of imaging parameters including sarcopenia metrics and tumor burden score.
• Evaluation of the relationship between these parameters and 1-year survival rates.
• PMVI is significantly associated with 1-year survival rates in the cohort.
• Conventional tumor burden score did not show a significant correlation with survival.
• Other sarcopenia-related imaging parameters were not associated with 1-year outcomes.