The Prognostic Significance of Pure Ground Glass Opacities in Lung Cancer Computed Tomographic Images.

ABSTRACT: Objective: Pure ground-glass opacity (GGO) nodules have been detected with increasing frequency using computed tomography (CT). We performed a retrospective study to clarify whether lung cancer patient prognoses correlated with pure GGO nodules. We also analyzed the clinical characters of patients with pure GGO nodules to provide diagnostic guidance on lung cancer identification and treatment of patients in clinical practice. Methods: We enrolled 39 of 1422 patients with pure GGO nodules who accepted surgical treatment of the lung cancer nodules, and reviewed materials from 404 patients to verify our conclusions. To discover which factors were prognostically significant, we used the Kaplan-Meier method to estimate the overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) curves. Age, g

SUBMITTER: Huang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6909955 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature