Possibility of determining the degree of adhesion of the lymph node to the pulmonary artery preoperatively

Table 1 Characteristics of the cases with adhesion of the LN to the PA

Case	Sex	Age	Smoking	c-Stage^a	s-Stage^b	p-Stage^c	Histology^d	Surgical procedure^e	CT finding
1	M	63	Former	IA	IA	IA	AD	LLL + LND	disappearance of fat plane
2	F	71	never	IA	IB	IA	AD	RML + LND	disappearance of fat plane
3	M	69	current	IB	IB	IB	SQ	LUL + LND with PA reconstruction	disappearance of fat plane
4	M	69	current	IIA	IB	IA	SQ	LUL + LND	nd^f

^aclinical stage, ^bsurgical stage, ^cpathological stage, ^dSQ squamous cell carcinoma, AD adenocarcinoma, ^eLLL left lower lobectomy, LND lymph node dissection, RML right middle lobectomy, LUL left upper lobectomy, ^fnot investigated due to plain CT

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