title: [Surgery for Pulmonary Multiple Ground Glass Opacities].
abstract: The incidence of pulmonary ground glass opacity (GGO) has been increasing in recent years, with a great number of patients having multiple GGOs. Unfortunately, the management of multiple GGOs is still controversial. Pulmonary GGO is a radiological term, consisting of different pathological types. Some of the GGOs are early-staged lung cancer. GGO is an indolent nodule, only a small proportion of GGOs change during observation, which does not influence the efficacy of surgery. . The timing of surgery for multiple GGOs mainly depends on the predominant nodule and surgery is recommended if the solid component of the predominant nodule >5 mm. Either lobectomy or sub-lobectomy is feasible. GGOs other than the predominant nodule can be left unresected. Multiple GGOs with high risk factors need mediastinal lymph node dissection or sampling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hodpital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
authors.forename: Qun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hodpital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hodpital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
authors.forename: Junjie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed