Visceral Pleural Invasion in Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma: Differences in CT Patterns between Solid and Subsolid Cancers.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To analyze the incidence and CT patterns of visceral pleural invasion (VPI) in adenocarcinomas on the basis of their CT presentation as solid or subsolid nodules.

Materials and methods

A total of 286 adenocarcinomas in direct contact with a pleural surface, resected at an institution between 2005 and 2016, were included in this retrospective, institutional review board-approved study. CT size and longest contact length with a pleural surface were measured and their ratios computed. Pleural deviation, pleural thickening, spiculations, different pleural tag types, pleural effusion, and the CT appearance of transgression into an adjacent lobe or infiltration of surrounding tissue were evaluated. Fisher exact tests and simple and multiple logistic regression models were

SUBMITTER: Heidinger BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7977962 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature