Contrast-enhanced CT longitudinal tail sign as a marker of positive resection margins in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the central airway.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to submucosal infiltration's biological nature along the airway, adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) frequently leaves positive surgical margins. This study evaluated the clinicopathologic, and computed tomography (CT) features for predicting surgical margin status in central airway ACC.

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed the files of 71 patients with ACC of the central airway proven by histopathology and surgery who had presented between January 2010 and December 2018. All patients were classified into positive and negative surgical margin groups according to margin status. Univariate analysis and multivariable logistic regression models were then performed to compare demography, histopathology, and CT characteristics between ACC patients with positive and negati

SUBMITTER: Wang SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8182504 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature