moderately significantp < 0.001
Subset analysis indicated that the increase of tumor necrosis treated by TASE (70.17 ± 10.42) was highly significant compared with the sham group (17.67 ± 4.63, p < 0.001), moderately significant compared with the C-TACE (32.33 ± 15.08, p < 0.001), as well as D-TACE group (45.33 ± 12.50, p < 0.001).