Surgery for Pulmonary Multiple Ground Glass Opacities

The incidence of pulmonary ground glass opacity (GGO) has been increasing in recent years, with a great number of patients having multiple GGOs. Unfortunately, the management of multiple GGOs is still controversial. Pulmonary GGO is a radiological term, consisting of different pathological types. So...

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Published in:Zhongguo fei ai za zhi 2016-06, Vol.19 (6), p.355-358
Main Authors: Wang, Qun, Jiang, Wei, Xi, Junjie
Format: Article
Language:Chinese
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Humans
Lung cancer
Lung neoplasms
Lung Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Lung Neoplasms - surgery
Lymph Node Excision
Lymphatic system
Medical imaging
Metastasis
Positron-Emission Tomography
Pulmonary ground glass opacity
Radiology
Surgery
Thoracic surgery
Tomography
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Summary:The incidence of pulmonary ground glass opacity (GGO) has been increasing in recent years, with a great number of patients having multiple GGOs. Unfortunately, the management of multiple GGOs is still controversial. Pulmonary GGO is a radiological term, consisting of different pathological types. Some of the GGOs are early-staged lung cancer. GGO is an indolent nodule, only a small proportion of GGOs change during observation, which does not influence the efficacy of surgery. . The timing of surgery for multiple GGOs mainly depends on the predominant nodule and surgery is recommended if the solid component of the predominant nodule >5 mm. Either lobectomy or sub-lobectomy is feasible. GGOs other than the predominant nodule can be left unresected. Multiple GGOs with high risk factors need mediastinal lymph node dissection or sampling.
ISSN:1009-3419
1999-6187
DOI:10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2016.06.11