Clinical characteristics of resected solitary ground-glass opacities: Comparison between benign and malignant nodules.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The management of ground-glass opacities (GGOs) depends mainly on personal experience. In clinical practice, benign GGOs are not rare in resected specimens, for which operations may be avoided. We retrospectively compared the clinical features of resected GGOs to identify differential diagnostic characteristics.

Methods

Among 1456 patients with suspected malignant GGOs who underwent surgical resection, 105 patients (35 with benign GGOs and 70 matched controls with malignant GGOs) were included. Clinical characteristics, including demographics and radiologic, surgical and pathologic characteristics, were collected.

Results

The smoking index (P = 0.044), frequency of coughing (P = 0.026), GGO size (P = 0.003), size change during follow-up (P = 0.011), locatio

SUBMITTER: Qin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7529560 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature