1. Predictive value of primary fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose standard uptake value for a better choice of systematic nodal dissection or sampling in clinical stage ia non--small-cell lung cancer
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Honglian Ma, Ligang Xing, Huaqi Zhang, Ming Chen, Wengui Xu, Xiaolin Li, Xiangying Xu, Peng Xie, Jinming Yu, Lin Zhang, Xindong Sun, and Lusheng Chen
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,Adult ,Male ,Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lung Neoplasms ,Adolescent ,Standardized uptake value ,Adenocarcinoma ,Mediastinal Neoplasms ,Metastasis ,Young Adult ,Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ,Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung ,medicine ,Humans ,Stage (cooking) ,Lung cancer ,Lymph node ,Aged ,Neoplasm Staging ,Retrospective Studies ,Fluorodeoxyglucose ,Aged, 80 and over ,business.industry ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Primary tumor ,Survival Rate ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Oncology ,Mediastinal lymph node ,Lymphatic Metastasis ,Positron-Emission Tomography ,Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ,Female ,Radiology ,Lymph Nodes ,Radiopharmaceuticals ,business ,Nuclear medicine ,medicine.drug ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
Purpose To determine whether the standard uptake value (SUV) of the primary lesion can predict mediastinal lymph node metastasis in clinical stage IA non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Materials and Methods At 5 centers, patients with clinical stage IA NSCLC from February 2004 to August 2010 were analyzed retrospectively. Data from Shandong Cancer Hospital and from the Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Harbin Medical University were used as a testing set, and data from the other 3 institutions were used as the validation set. Final diagnosis was established based on the histopathologic examination. Results Data from 144 patients were collected for the study. The primary results in our study showed that maximal SUV (SUVmax) of primary tumor might be a predictor of lymph node metastasis (χ 2 = 10.424; P = .001) and the best cutoff value was 7.25 ( P = .029). For the testing set, lymph node metastasis rates in low-grade group (SUVmax 7.25) were 5% (2/43) and 36% (9/25) ( P = .001) For the total data set, lymph node metastasis rate was 7% (6/93) in low-grade group (SUVmax 7.25) (χ 2 = 10.424; P = .001). A multivariate analysis revealed that no factors were applied to predict the probability of metastasis. But the analysis showed a weak correlation between SUVmax and nodal status ( r = 0.21; P = .011) with bivariate correlation. Conclusion Analysis of our data suggested that fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose SUVmax of the primary tumor might be a predictor of lymph node involvement in stage IA NSCLC. The rate of mediastinal lymph node metastasis of patients with a lower fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography–computed tomography SUVmax might be relatively low, which provides more evidence for clinical procedures of clinical stage IA NSCLC.
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- 2012