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    Interventional procedure overview of irreversible electroporation for treating prostate cancer

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    Literature search strategy

    Databases

    Date searched

    Version/files

    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – CDSR (Cochrane)

    30/03/2022

    Issue 2 of 12, February 2022

    Cochrane Central Database of Controlled Trials – CENTRAL (Cochrane)

    30/03/2022

    Issue 2 of 12, February 2022

    International HTA database (INAHTA)

    30/03/2022

    -

    MEDLINE (Ovid)

    30/03/2022

    1946 to March 29, 2022

    MEDLINE In-Process (Ovid)

    30/03/2022

    1946 to March 29, 2022

    MEDLINE Epubs ahead of print (Ovid)

    30/03/2022

    March 29, 2022

    EMBASE (Ovid)

    30/03/2022

    1974 to 2022 March 29

    The following search strategy was used to identify papers in MEDLINE. A similar strategy was used to identify papers in other databases.

    1 exp Prostatic Neoplasms/

    2 Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia/

    3 (prostat* adj4 (neoplas* or cancer* or carcinoma* or adenocarcinom* or tumour* or tumor* or malignan* or metasta* or angiosarcoma* or sarcoma* or teratoma* or lymphoma* or blastoma* or microcytic* or carcino* or leiomyosarcoma* or lump* or mass*)).tw.

    4 PIN.tw.

    5 or/1-4

    6 exp Electroporation/

    7 (irrevers* adj4 (electropor* or electro-por* or electropermeab* or electro-permeab*)).tw.

    8 IRE.tw.

    9 LEDC.tw.

    10 Electrochemotherapy/

    11 (electrochemo* or electro-chemo* or (electr* adj2 chemo*)).tw.

    12 ((bipolar or unipolar) adj4 (pulse? or electrod* or mode?)).tw.

    13 Electric Stimulation/

    14 Electric Stimulation Therapy/

    15 (electric* adj4 (field* or stimul* or pulse* or cell? or membrane* or pore?)).tw.

    16 Ablation Techniques/

    17 ((tissue* or tumo?r* or non-thermal* or nonthermal*) adj4 ablat*).tw.

    18 exp Nanotechnology/

    19 (nanotechnolog* or nanopore*).tw.

    20 or/6-19

    21 5 and 20

    22 nanoknife*.tw.

    23 Cliniporator*.tw.

    24 22 or 23

    25 21 or 24

    26 animals/ not humans/

    27 25 not 26

    28 limit 27 to english language