Stepwise progression from ground-glass opacity towards invasive adenocarcinoma: long-term follow-up of radiological findings.
The natural history of lung adenocarcinoma with ground-glass opacity (GGO) remains undetermined. We describe a lung adenocarcinoma in which GGO transformed through a scar-like lesion over the long term into a solid nodule of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. Whether poorly differentiated lung adenocarcinoma can evolve from GGO-type adenocarcinoma is an important issue that requires clarification.
Soda
Hiroshi
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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan. h-souda@hospital.sasebo.nagasaki.jp
Nakamura
Yoichi
Y
Nakatomi
Katsumi
K
Tomonaga
Nanae
N
Yamaguchi
Hiroyuki
H
Nakano
Hirofumi
H
Nagashima
Seiji
S
Anami
Masanobu
M
Hayashi
Tomayoshi
T
Tsukamoto
Kazuhiro
K
Kohno
Sigeru
S
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D018450:Disease Progression; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D016634:Radiosurgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed