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ArticleCancers2021

Predictors of Invasive Adenocarcinomas among Pure Ground-Glass Nodules Less Than 2 cm in Diameter.

Wen-Chi Hsu, Pei-Ching Huang, Kuang-Tse Pan, Wen-Yu Chuang, Ching-Yang Wu, Ho-Fai Wong, Cheng-Ta Yang, Yung-Liang Wan

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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 24 papers.

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Wen-Chi HsuDepartment of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.
Pei-Ching HuangDepartment of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.
Kuang-Tse PanDepartment of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.
Wen-Yu ChuangDepartment of Anatomic Pathology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-3729-073X
Ching-Yang WuDivision of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-3838-6717
Ho-Fai WongDepartment of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.
Cheng-Ta YangDepartment of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-1846-1027
Yung-Liang WanDepartment of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.

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Chang Gung Memorial Hospital BMRP193
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Benign lesions, atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH), and malignancies such as adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA), and invasive adenocarcinoma (IA) may feature a pure ground-glass nodule (pGGN) on a thin-slide computed tomography (CT) image. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) classification for lung cancer, the prognosis of patients with IA is worse than those with AIS and MIA. It is relatively risky to perform a core needle biopsy of a pGGN less than 2 cm to obtain a reliable pathological diagnosis. The early and adequate management of patients with IA may provide a favorable prognosis. This study aimed to disclose suggestive signs of CT to accurately predict IA among the pGGNs. A total of 181 pGGNs of less than 2 cm, in 171 patients who had preoperative CT-guided localization for surgical excision of a lung nodule between December 2013 and August 2019, were enrolled. All had CT images of 0.625 mm slice thickness during CT-guided intervention to confirm that the nodules were purely ground glass. The clinical data, CT images, and pathological reports of those 171 patients were reviewed. The CT findings of pGGNs including the location, the maximal diameter in the long axis (size-L), the maximal short axis diameter perpendicular to the size-L (size-S), and the mean value of long and short axis diameters (size-M), internal content, shape, interface, margin, lobulation, spiculation, air cavity, vessel relationship, and pleural retraction were recorded and analyzed. The final pathological diagnoses of the 181 pGGNs comprised 29 benign nodules, 14 AAHs, 25 AISs, 55 MIAs, and 58 IAs. Statistical analysis showed that there were significant differences among the aforementioned five groups with respect to size-L, size-S, and size-M (

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CTground-glass noduleinvasive adenocarcinomanon-invasive adenocarcinomapredictorpre-invasive lesion

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PMCPMC8391557

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