Evidence table: histopathology, type of surgery and survival data in 21 patients who underwent cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy (HITHOC)
| Patient number | Year [ref.] | Sex | Age years | Type of tumour | Approach | Type of surgery | Survival months |
| 1 | 2013 [8] | Adenocarcinoma | Right thoracotomy | Pleurectomy | 8 (deceased) | ||
| 2 | Adenocarcinoma | Right thoracotomy | Pleurectomy/decortication | 1 (deceased) | |||
| 3 | Adenocarcinoma | Right VATS | Pleurectomy/decortication | 27 (deceased) | |||
| 4 | Adenocarcinoma | Left thoracotomy | Pleurectomy/decortication | 3 (deceased) | |||
| 5 | Adenocarcinoma | Right thoracotomy | Pleurectomy/decortication | 16 (deceased) | |||
| 6 | Adeno-squamous | Left thoracotomy | Pleurectomy/decortication | 30 (alive) | |||
| 7 | Adenocarcinoma | Left thoracotomy | Pleurectomy/decortication | 22 (alive) | |||
| 8 | Adenocarcinoma | Right thoracotomy | Wedge upper lobectomy+ pleurectomy/decortication | 18 (alive) | |||
| 9 | Adenocarcinoma | Left thoracotomy | Pneumonectomy+pleurectomy | 18 (alive) | |||
| 10 | Adenocarcinoma | Right thoracotomy | Lower lobectomy+ pleurectomy/decortication | 8 (alive) | |||
| 11 | Adenocarcinoma | Left thoracotomy | Pleurectomy/decortication | 7 (alive) | |||
| 12 | 2003 [9] | Male | 55 | Adenocarcinoma | Thoracotomy | HITHOC (first)+ panpleuropneumonectomy | 32 (alive) |
| 13 | Female | 65 | Adenocarcinoma | Thoracotomy | HITHOC+ panpleuropneumonectomy | 24 (alive) | |
| 14 | Male | 67 | Adeno-squamous | Thoracotomy | HITHOC+ panpleuropneumonectomy | 8 (deceased) | |
| 15 | Male | 50 | Adenocarcinoma | Thoracotomy | HITHOC+ panpleuropneumonectomy | 18 (alive) | |
| 16 | Female | 55 | Adenocarcinoma | Thoracotomy | HITHOC+ panpleuropneumonectomy | 12 (alive) | |
| 17 | 2003 [10] | Male | 42 | Adenocarcinoma | Thoracotomy | Pleurectomy | 74 (deceased) |
| 18 | Male | 49 | Adenocarcinoma | Thoracotomy | Pleurectomy | 20 (deceased) | |
| 19 | Male | 65 | Adenocarcinoma | Thoracotomy | Wedge+pleurectomy | 6 (deceased) | |
| 20 | 2015 [3]# | Female | 53 | Adenocarcinoma | Right VATS | Wedge upper lobectomy+ pleurectomy/decortication | 36 (deceased) |
| 21 | Male | 54 | Adenocarcinoma | Right thoracotomy | Wedge upper lobectomy+ chest wall resection+ pleurectomy/decortication | 7 (deceased) |
VATS: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. #: our experience updated from [7].