Progress in screening and follow-up studies of pulmonary ground glass nodules.
10.3760/cma.j.cn112152-20200506-00418
- VernacularTitle:肺磨玻璃结节筛查及随诊研究进展
- Author:
Shuai Bo WANG
1
;
You Sheng MAO
1
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China.
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Ground glass nodule;
Lung neoplasms;
Multidisciplinary team;
Screeing;
Surgical treatment
- MeSH:
Follow-Up Studies;
Humans;
Lung Neoplasms/surgery*;
Multiple Pulmonary Nodules/surgery*;
Retrospective Studies;
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule/surgery*
- From:
Chinese Journal of Oncology
2022;44(2):123-129
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
With the wide application of high-resolution chest CT in health check-up, the ground glass nodule(GGN) has been increasingly detected. GGNs have a complex etiology and image features, which can develop fast or very slowly. Therefore, whether to follow up or to resect it is usually very difficult to be determined. Overdiagnosis or overtreatment frequently happens. According to the development of GGNs, the process can be clinically divided into four stages: biological onset stage (pre-detection stage), observational stage, clinical treatment stage and postoperative follow-up stage. This review summarizes the progress on the natural development process, imaging monitoring and differentiation, the optimal time of surgical treatment for GGNs based on the decision of multidisciplinary team. This revie wmay be helpful for clinicians to understand the rule of GGN development in the follow-up, and find an optimal time to give surgical intervention for improving the prognosis of and life quality of the GGN patients.
