Visceral Pleural Invasion Is Not a Significant Prognostic Factor in Patients With a Part- Solid Lung Cancer Aritoshi Hattori, MD, Kenji Suzuki, MD, Takeshi Matsunaga, MD, Kazuya Takamochi, MD, Shiaki Oh, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 98, Issue 2, Pages 433-438 (August 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.04.084 Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Typical images of part-solid lung cancer on thin-section CT scan. These lesions were proved to present VPI pathologically. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 98, 433-438DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.04.084) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Survival curves for patients with surgically resected pure-solid lung cancers less than 30 mm in diameter based on thin-section computed tomographic findings. A statistically significant difference was observed between the outcomes with and without visceral pleural invasion (5-year overall survival rate, 81.3% vs 70.1%; log-rank test; p = 0.0051). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 98, 433-438DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.04.084) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Survival curves for patients with surgically resected part-solid lung cancers less than 30 mm in diameter based on thin-section computed tomographic findings. A statistically significant difference was not observed between the outcomes with and without visceral pleural invasion (5-year overall survival rate, 94.9% vs 85.6%; log-rank test; p = 0.3798). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 98, 433-438DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.04.084) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions