… From February 2006 to May 2008, 100 patients with pathological stage IA lung adenocarcinoma
underwent complete resection at our hospital. Tumors were classified as air-type or solid…

… CT stage IA or IB disease was defined according to the … that FDG PET can be used to assign
patients in whom stage I NSCLC has been diagnosed at CT to the most appropriate staging …

… of FDG PET combined with high-resolution CT (HRCT) in predicting the pathologic subtypes
and growth patterns of early lung adenocarcinoma. … with stage IA lung adenocarcinoma. The …

… This study examined tumor FDG uptake and its association with survival in … stage IA NSCLC.
We found that patients with higher FDG uptake had worse survival when FDG uptake was …

… , FDG PET/CT plays an important role in the staging of NSCLC… of care for noninvasive
mediastinal staging and detection of … the prognostic and predictive implications of FDG PET/CT. …

… We recently reported that clinical Stage IA lung adenocarcinomas with high FDG uptake …
with low FDG uptake.15 The present study also revealed that patients with adenocarcinomas …

… stage IA and IB lung cancer, respectively, which underscores the biological heterogeneity of
… -stage lung cancer.1 Clearly, there is a need to better stratify stage I lung cancer patients by …

… for stage IA lung cancer, although a large-scale prospective study is needed to confirm
our results. Another application of TLG in stage IA … in lung cancer surgery, even in early-stage …

… staging system is reviewed, as well as the role of FDG PET/CT in the staging of non–small
cell lung carcinoma… edition of the TNM staging system for lung cancer, highlighting changes …

… study FDG-PET scan improved clinical staging of lung cancer … of metastases after conventional
staging, thus avoiding futile … Routine use of FDG-PET in staging lung cancer may thus …