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Thoracic Imaging |
1 From the Kurt Rossmann Laboratories for Radiologic Image Research, Department of Radiology, MC-2026, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 (F.L., H.A., H.M., S.G.A., K.D.); and Azumi General Hospital, Ikeda, Nagano, Japan (S.S.). From the 2001 RSNA scientific assembly. Received August 13, 2001; revision requested September 20; final revision received July 3, 2002; accepted July 10. Supported in part by United States Public Health Service grant CA62625. Address correspondence to F.L. (e-mail: fli@kurt.bsd.uchicago.edu).
PURPOSE: To compare clinical, histopathologic, and imaging features of lung cancers missed at low-radiation-dose helical computed tomography (CT).
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eighty-three primary lung cancers were found during an annual low-dose CT screening program and confirmed histopathologically at either surgery or biopsy. Thirty-two of these lung cancers were missed on 39 CT scans: on 23 scans owing to detection errors and on 16 owing to interpretation errors. The clinical characteristics, CT features, and histopathologic findings of these missed lung cancers were correlated.
RESULTS: All missed cancers were intrapulmonary, and 28 (88%) were stage IA. All 20 detection errors occurred in cases of adenocarcinoma, 17 (85%) of which were well-differentiated tumors and 11 (55%) of which were in nonsmoking women. The mean size of cancers missed owing to detection error, 9.8 mm, was smaller than that of cancers missed owing to interpretation error, 15.9 mm (P < .001). In the detection error group, the percentages of nodules with ground-glass opacity (91%) or judged to be subtle (91%) were greater than those of nodules in the interpretation error group (38% and 25%, respectively) (P < .001). In the detection error group, 83% (19/23) of cancers were overlapped with, obscured by, or similar in appearance to normal structures such as pulmonary vessels. On 14 of the 16 CT scans with which there were interpretation errors, the CT findings mimicked benign disease, and the patients also had underlying lung disease, such as tuberculosis, emphysema, or lung fibrosis.
CONCLUSION: The lung cancers missed at low-dose CT screening in this series generally were very subtle and appeared as small faint nodules, overlapping normal structures, or opacities in a complex background of other disease.
© RSNA, 2002
Index terms: Cancer screening, 60.32 • Lung neoplasms, CT, 60.12111, 60.12115 • Lung neoplasms, diagnosis, 60.31, 60.32 • Lung neoplasms, screening, 60.31, 60.32
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