Yoshihisa Kobayashi1, Yukinori Sakao2, Gautam A Deshpande3, Takayuki Fukui4, Tetsuya Mizuno1, Hiroaki Kuroda1, Noriaki Sakakura1, Noriyasu Usami4, Yasushi Yatabe5, Tetsuya Mitsudomi6. 1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, 1-1 Kanokoden, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan. 2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, 1-1 Kanokoden, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan. Electronic address: ysakao@aichi-cc.jp. 3. St. Luke's Life Science Institute, St. Luke's International Hospital, 10-1 Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0044, Japan; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Hawaii, 1356 Lusitana Street #711, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA. 4. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan. 5. Department of Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, 1-1 Kanokoden, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan. 6. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, 377-2 Ohno-Higashi, Osaka-Sayama 589-8511, Japan.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary nodules with ground-glass opacity (GGO) are frequently encountered; there is little consensus on appropriate monitoring of them. The purpose of this study was to clarify which baseline clinical and radiological characteristics were associated with growth of these nodules. METHODS: We retrospectively studied patients with pulmonary nodules that met the following criteria: (1) lesion diameter of ≤3 cm, (2) GGO proportion of ≥50%, and (3) observation without treatment in the prior 6 months. Between 1999 and 2013, 120 pulmonary lesions in 67 patients fulfilled inclusion criteria. We evaluated changes in lesion size on serial computed tomography. Two endpoints, "time to 2-mm growth" and "incidence of 2-mm growth", were analyzed using Cox proportional hazards and logistic regression models, respectively. RESULTS: At the median observation period of 4.2 years, 34 lesions exhibited growth by ≥2 mm, whereas 86 remained unchanged. Smoking history and initial lesion diameter were statistically significant variables in both time-to-event and regression analyses. Hazard ratio (HR) for smoking history was 3.67 (P<0.01). Compared with those ≤1 cm, HRs for 1.1-2 cm and 2.1-3 cm lesions were 2.23 (P=0.08) and 5.08 (P=0.04), respectively. Odds ratio (OR) for smoking history was 6.51 (P<0.01); OR for lesion diameter of 1.1-3 cm (versus ≤1 cm) was 4.06 (P=0.02). CONCLUSION: Smoking history and initial lesion diameter are robustly associated with GGO growth. These results suggest that large GGOs, especially in smokers, warrant close follow-up to accurately monitor lesion growth.
INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary nodules with ground-glass opacity (GGO) are frequently encountered; there is little consensus on appropriate monitoring of them. The purpose of this study was to clarify which baseline clinical and radiological characteristics were associated with growth of these nodules. METHODS: We retrospectively studied patients with pulmonary nodules that met the following criteria: (1) lesion diameter of ≤3 cm, (2) GGO proportion of ≥50%, and (3) observation without treatment in the prior 6 months. Between 1999 and 2013, 120 pulmonary lesions in 67 patients fulfilled inclusion criteria. We evaluated changes in lesion size on serial computed tomography. Two endpoints, "time to 2-mm growth" and "incidence of 2-mm growth", were analyzed using Cox proportional hazards and logistic regression models, respectively. RESULTS: At the median observation period of 4.2 years, 34 lesions exhibited growth by ≥2 mm, whereas 86 remained unchanged. Smoking history and initial lesion diameter were statistically significant variables in both time-to-event and regression analyses. Hazard ratio (HR) for smoking history was 3.67 (P<0.01). Compared with those ≤1 cm, HRs for 1.1-2 cm and 2.1-3 cm lesions were 2.23 (P=0.08) and 5.08 (P=0.04), respectively. Odds ratio (OR) for smoking history was 6.51 (P<0.01); OR for lesion diameter of 1.1-3 cm (versus ≤1 cm) was 4.06 (P=0.02). CONCLUSION: Smoking history and initial lesion diameter are robustly associated with GGO growth. These results suggest that large GGOs, especially in smokers, warrant close follow-up to accurately monitor lesion growth.
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