Prognostic significance of ground-glass areas within tumours in non-small-cell lung cancer.
Hiroyuki SakuraiYasushi GotoKiyotaka YohKazuya TakamochiTakehiro ShukuyaTomoyuki HishidaMasahiro TsuboiKoichi YoshidaYasuhisa OhdeSakae OkumuraMasataka TaguriHideo KunitohPublished in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2024)
Patients with GGA+ NSCLC on high-resolution computed tomography and ≤4 cm invasion size may have a better prognosis than patients with solid GGA- tumours of the same T-stage. However, the presence or absence of radiological GGA has little impact on the prognosis of patients with NSCLC with greater (>4 cm) pathological invasion.