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Upper abdominal computerized tomography scanning in staging non‐small cell lung carcinoma
Author(s) -
Chapman Geoffrey S.,
Kumar Dharmendra,
Iii John Redmond,
Munderloh Stephen H.,
Gandara David R.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19841015)54:8<1541::aid-cncr2820540812>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , thoracotomy , occult , carcinoma , lung cancer , computed tomographic , lung , small cell carcinoma , tomography , computed tomography , surgery , pathology , alternative medicine
During preoperative staging the authors performed upper abdominal computed tomographic (CT) scanning in 38 patients with non‐small cell lung carcinoma. Five of the 38 patients had occult adrenal metastases based on CT images. Two of these five patients, who would otherwise have been surgical candidates for definitive thoracotomy, underwent percutaneous fine‐needle aspiration cytology of the suspected adrenal metastases. Cytology results in both cases were positive for metastatic carcinoma, thereby precluding thoracotomy. Upper abdominal CT scanning may optimize preoperative staging of selected non‐small cell lung cancer patients.