scholarly journals Radiopathologic correlation of collision lung cancer with ground-glass opacity

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
Shinsuke Uchida ◽  
Koji Tsuta ◽  
Masahiko Kusumoto ◽  
Kouya Shiraishi ◽  
Takashi Kohno ◽  
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Pulmonary collision tumors have been described as a special entity of synchronous multiple lung cancer. There have been no reports detailing the chronological changes in primary collision lung cancers on chest computed tomography. We report a case of ground-glass lung nodules gradually colliding with each other. The collision tumors of the lung were composed of minimally invasive adenocarcinoma and adenocarcinoma in situ with epidermal growth factor mutations. Immunohistochemically, the Ki-67 labeling indices were different in the 2 components. Ki-67 staining was useful to distinguish the 2 components. The 2 dominant ground-glass tumors grew slowly with radiologic and pathologic heterogeneity.

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (04) ◽  
pp. 321-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geun Dong Lee ◽  
Chul Hwan Park ◽  
Heae Surng Park ◽  
Min Kwang Byun ◽  
Ik Jae Lee ◽  
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Background We aimed to identify clinicopathologic characteristics and risk of invasiveness of lung adenocarcinoma in surgically resected pure ground-glass opacity lung nodules (GGNs) smaller than 2 cm. Methods Among 755 operations for lung cancer or tumors suspicious for lung cancer performed from 2012 to 2016, we retrospectively analyzed 44 surgically resected pure GGNs smaller than 2 cm in diameter on computed tomography (CT). Results The study group was composed of 36 patients including 11 men and 25 women with a median age of 59.5 years (range, 34–77). Median follow-up duration of pure GGNs was 6 months (range, 0–63). Median maximum diameter of pure GGNs was 8.5 mm (range, 4–19). Pure GGNs were resected by wedge resection, segmentectomy, or lobectomy in 27 (61.4%), 10 (22.7%), and 7 (15.9%) cases, respectively. Pathologic diagnosis was atypical adenomatous hyperplasia, adenocarcinoma in situ, minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA), or invasive adenocarcinoma (IA) in 1 (2.3%), 18 (40.9%), 15 (34.1%), and 10 (22.7%) cases, respectively. The optimal cutoff value for CT-maximal diameter to predict MIA or IA was 9.1 mm. In multivariate analyses, maximal CT-maximal diameter of GGNs ≥10 mm (odds ratio, 24.050; 95% confidence interval, 2.6–221.908; p = 0.005) emerged as significant independent predictor for either MIA or IA. Estimated risks of MIA or IA were 37.2, 59.3, 78.2, and 89.8% at maximal GGN diameters of 5, 10, 15, and 20 mm, respectively. Conclusion Pure GGNs were highly associated with lung adenocarcinoma in surgically resected cases, while estimated risk of GGNs invasiveness gradually increased as maximal diameter increased.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Li ◽  
Hongwei Zheng ◽  
Shanshan Liu ◽  
Xinhua Wang ◽  
Lei Xiao ◽  
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Abstract Background: To investigate whether thin-section computed tomography (TSCT) features may efficiently guide the invasiveness basedclassification of lung adenocarcinoma. Methods: Totally, 316 lung adenocarcinoma patients (from 2011-2015) were divided into three groups: 56 adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), 98 minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA), and 162 invasive adenocarcinoma (IAC) according their pathological results. Their TSCT features, including nodule pattern, shape, pleural invasion, solid proportion, border, margin, vascular convergence, air bronchograms, vacuole sign, pleural indentation, diameter, solid diameter, and CT values of ground-glass nodules (GGN) were analyzed. Pearson’s chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test and One-way ANOVA were adopted tocomparebetweengroups. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis wereperformedto assess its value for prediction and diagnosis. Results: Patients with IAC were significantly elder than those in AIS or MIA group,and more MIA patients had a smoking history than AIS and IAC. No recurrence happened in the AIS and MIA groups, while 4.3% recurrences were confirmed in the IAC group. As for TSCT variables, we found AIS group showed dominantly higher 91.07%PGGN pattern and 87.50% round/oval nodules than that in MIA and IAC group. In contrast, MIA group showed more cases with undefined border and vascular convergence than AIS and IAC group. Importantly, IAC group uniquely showed higher frequency of pleural invasion compared with MIA and AIS group. The majority of patients (82.1%) in IAC group showed ≥ 50% solid proportion. We found diameter and solid diameter of the lesions were notably larger in the IAC group compared with AIS and MIA groupin quantitative aspect. In addition, for MGGNs, the CT values of ground-glass opacity (GGO) and ground-glass opacity solid portion (GGO-solid) were both higher in the IAC group than AIS and MIA. Finally, we also observed that smooth margin took a dominant proportion in the AIS group while most cases in the IAC group had a lobulate margin. Patients in MIA and IAC group shared higher level of air bronchograms and vacuole signs than AIS group. Conclusions: The unique features in different groups identified by TSCT had diagnosis value for lung adenocarcinoma.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e20042-e20042
Author(s):  
Jianjun Zhang ◽  
Dan Su ◽  
Junya Fujimoto ◽  
Lisa Ying ◽  
Chi-Wan Chow ◽  
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e20042 Background: The widespread use of CT for lung cancer screening and other reasons has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of indeterminate ground glass opacities (GGOs). While many of GGOs can be resected with minimal morbidity, the cost has been called into question. Furthermore, multifocality is a relatively common, which makes decisions on extent of surgical resection and potential benefit less clear. Chemoprevention is a theoretically appealing approach to reduce lung cancer incidence and mortality. However, randomized trials have been disappointing to date. This may be due to the constellation of many factors including lack of reliable biomarkers to identify high-risk patients, lack of appropriate molecular targets and appropriate drugs because of our rudimentary knowledge on early carcinogenesis of lung cancers. It has been postulated that atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH) represents preneoplastic lesion that can progress to adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA) and further to frankly invasive adenocarcinoma (ADC). However, the biology of these lesions is poorly understood and the definition and management of these lesions remain controversial. Methods: Study on early carcinogenesis is hampered by the small size of lesions and challenge of obtaining longitudinal samples at different stages of disease progression. Multiregion sequencing can depict genomic events relative to molecular time with early events ubiquitously present in all regions and late mutations confined to spatially separated regions of lesions. Using this approach, our recent work has reported that 20/21 canonical cancer gene mutations were early genetic events. Results: With intent to delineate the pivotal molecular events driving early carcinogenesis of lung cancer, we have collected 154 resected GGOs with including AAH (N = 40), AIS (N = 39), MIA (N = 55) and ADC (N = 20) based on the IASLC/ATS/ERS classification from 89 patients including 38 patients presenting with multifocal GGOs and 18 patients carry more than one type of pathology. Two to five spatially separated regions from each of the 154 lesions are subjected to whole exome sequencing. Conclusions: The data will be ready to present at the meeting.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Li ◽  
Hongwei Zheng ◽  
Shanshan Liu ◽  
Xinhua Wang ◽  
Lei Xiao ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: To investigate whether thin-section computed tomography (TSCT) features may efficiently guide the invasiveness basedclassification of lung adenocarcinoma. Methods: Totally, 316 lung adenocarcinoma patients (from 2011-2015) were divided into three groups: 56 adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), 98 minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA), and 162 invasive adenocarcinoma (IAC) according their pathological results. Their TSCT features, including nodule pattern, shape, pleural invasion, solid proportion, border, margin, vascular convergence, air bronchograms, vacuole sign, pleural indentation, diameter, solid diameter, and CT values of ground-glass nodules (GGN) were analyzed. Pearson’s chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test and One-way ANOVA were adopted tocomparebetweengroups. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis wereperformedto assess its value for prediction and diagnosis. Results: Patients with IAC were significantly elder than those in AIS or MIA group,and more MIA patients had a smoking history than AIS and IAC. No recurrence happened in the AIS and MIA groups, while 4.3% recurrences were confirmed in the IAC group. As for TSCT variables, we found AIS group showed dominantly higher 91.07%PGGN pattern and 87.50% round/oval nodules than that in MIA and IAC group. In contrast, MIA group showed more cases with undefined border and vascular convergence than AIS and IAC group. Importantly, IAC group uniquely showed higher frequency of pleural invasion compared with MIA and AIS group. The majority of patients (82.1%) in IAC group showed ≥ 50% solid proportion. We found diameter and solid diameter of the lesions were notably larger in the IAC group compared with AIS and MIA groupin quantitative aspect. In addition, for MGGNs, the CT values of ground-glass opacity (GGO) and ground-glass opacity solid portion (GGO-solid) were both higher in the IAC group than AIS and MIA. Finally, we also observed that smooth margin took a dominant proportion in the AIS group while most cases in the IAC group had a lobulate margin. Patients in MIA and IAC group shared higher level of air bronchograms and vacuole signs than AIS group. Conclusions: The unique features in different groups identified by TSCT had diagnosis value for lung adenocarcinoma.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshinori Handa ◽  
Yasuhiro Tsutani ◽  
Morihito Okada

Lobectomy has been the standard surgical treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Over the decades, with the dramatic development of radiographic tools, such as high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT), and the widespread practice of low-dose helical CT for screening, the number of cases diagnosed with small-cell lung cancers with ground glass opacity (GGO) at early stages has been increasing. Accordingly, mainly after 2000, many retrospective studies and prospective trials have shown that patients with lung adenocarcinoma with GGO have a good prognosis and may be candidates for sublobar resection. Previous studies indicated that HRCT findings including the maximum diameter of the tumor, GGO ratio, and a consolidation/tumor ratio (CTR) are simple and useful tools to predict tumor invasiveness and prognosis in patients with NSCLC with GGO. Thus, sublobar resection may be considered a “standard therapy” for peripheral GGO-dominant small-cell lung adenocarcinomas. Ultimately, some of such tumors might not require surgical resection. A multicenter, prospective study has just begun in Japan to evaluate the validity of follow-up for small-sized GGO-dominant small-cell lung cancer. Lung cancers that do not require surgery should be identified. This study reviewed retrospective and prospective studies on GGO tumors and discussed the treatment strategies for such tumors.


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