CT diagnosis of pleural and stromal invasion in malignant subpleural pure ground-glass nodules: an exploratory study
- 25 June 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Radiology
- Vol. 29 (1), 279-286
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-018-5558-0
Abstract
To assess the risk of visceral pleural invasion (VPI) and improve the diagnosis of invasive adenocarcinoma (IA) in pure ground-glass nodules (pGGNs) in contact with pleura, through a comprehensive analysis of the thin-section CT features of subpleural malignant pGGNs.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (81171344)
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