Differential diagnosis of pulmonary nodular mucinous adenocarcinoma and tuberculoma with dynamic CT: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary nodular mucinous adenocarcinoma (PNMA) tends to be easily misdiagnosed as tuberculoma in practice. In this study, we aimed to discriminate PNMA from tuberculoma with dynamic computed tomography (CT).

Methods

In this study, 38 consecutive pathologically confirmed cases of PNMA and 23 cases of tuberculoma from January 2015 to December 2019 were retrospectively collected. The mean CT attenuations of each lesion were examined. The values on the plain scan, the venous scan, and the enhanced values (CT attenuation of lesion of venous scan minus that of the plain scan) were tested with an independent t-test pair-wisely. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were performed to test the differential diagnosis values. The presence of satelli

SUBMITTER: Yin YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9096301 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature