Is extrathoracic metastasis screening necessary for clinical stage IA non-small cell lung cancer?

Yoshihito IijimaMasahito IshikawaShun IwaiNozomu MotonoShigeki YamagishiKiyoshi KoizumiHidetaka Uramoto

Published in: Science progress (2022)

When evaluating stage IA non-small cell lung cancer with a solid component diameter < 22 mm, or clinical T1mi-1bN0 in computed tomography evaluation, screening for preoperative extrathoracic metastasis may be omitted.

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computed tomography
patients undergoing
magnetic resonance imaging
positron emission tomography
optical coherence tomography
image quality
clinical evaluation