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World J Radiol. Jun 28, 2022; 14(6): 155-164
Published online Jun 28, 2022. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v14.i6.155
Published online Jun 28, 2022. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v14.i6.155
Evaluation of the dual vascular supply patterns in ground-glass nodules with a dynamic volume computed tomography
Chao Wang, Zhuang Zhang, Lai-Xing Zhang, Department of Graduate, Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou 075000, Hebei Province, China
Ning Wu, Xiao-Dong Yuan, Department of Radiology, The Eighth Medical Center of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing 100091, China
Author contributions: Yuan XD and Wu N designed the study; Wang C wrote the first draft of the manuscript; Zhang Z and Zhang LX collected the data; Wang C performed the literature search and analysis; Yuan XD and Wang C conducted the statistical analysis and polished the language; all authors participated in and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China , No. 81671680 .
Institutional review board statement: Our prospective study was approved by our institutional review board.
Informed consent statement: Written informed consents were obtained from all patients.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors of this manuscript having no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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Corresponding author: Xiao-Dong Yuan, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of Radiology, The Eighth Medical Center of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital, No. 17 Heishanhu Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100091, China. yuanxiaodongzj@163.com
Received: December 2, 2021
Peer-review started: December 2, 2021
First decision: April 8, 2022
Revised: April 20, 2022
Accepted: June 16, 2022
Article in press: June 16, 2022
Published online: June 28, 2022
Processing time: 208 Days and 4.8 Hours
Peer-review started: December 2, 2021
First decision: April 8, 2022
Revised: April 20, 2022
Accepted: June 16, 2022
Article in press: June 16, 2022
Published online: June 28, 2022
Processing time: 208 Days and 4.8 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: In this study, bronchial flow (BF) and pulmonary flow (PF) as well as perfusion index (PI) were obtained by using first-pass dual-input computed tomography perfusion analysis and compared respectively among different histopathological types and between pure and mixed ground-glass nodules (GGNs), then correlated with the attenuation values in forty-seven GGNs from 47 patients. We found that the GGNs are perfused dominantly by the PF regardless of histopathological types while the weight of the BF in the GGN carcinomas increases gradually during its opacification. Therefore, the PI may be a potentially useful biomarker for distinguishing indolent nodules from aggressive ones.