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ArticleCancers2021

Novel Insights of T2-Weighted Imaging: Significance for Discriminating Lung Cancer from Benign Pulmonary Nodules and Masses.

Katsuo Usuda, Shun Iwai, Aika Yamagata, Yoshihito Iijima, Nozomu Motono, Munetaka Matoba, Mariko Doai, Keiya Hirata, Hidetaka Uramoto

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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9 authors.

Katsuo UsudaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6803-9356
Shun IwaiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Aika YamagataDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Yoshihito IijimaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Nozomu MotonoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Munetaka MatobaDepartment of Radiology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Mariko DoaiDepartment of Radiology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Keiya HirataMRI Center, Kanazawa Medical University Hospital, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Hidetaka UramotoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.

Funding

the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan 20K09172
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diffusion-weighted imaging is useful for discriminating lung cancer from benign pulmonary nodules and masses (BPNMs), however the diagnostic capability is not perfect. The aim of this research was to clarify whether T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) is efficient in discriminating lung cancer from BPNMs, especially from pulmonary abscesses. A T2 contrast ratio (T2 CR) for a pulmonary nodule is defined as the ratio of T2 signal intensity of a pulmonary nodule divided by the T2 signal intensity of the rhomboid muscle. There were 52 lung cancers and 40 inflammatory BPNMs (mycobacteria disease 12, pneumonia 13, pulmonary abscess 9, other 6) and seven non-inflammatory BPNMs. The T2 CR (2.14 ± 0.63) of lung cancers was significantly lower than that (2.68 ± 1.04) of BPNMs (

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lung cancermagnetic resonance imaging (MRI)pulmonary abscesspulmonary nodule and mass (PNM)T2-weighted imaging (T2WI)

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PMID34359616
PMCPMC8345147

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