Table 2.
Surgical outcomes and histopathological findings
| Surgical type | |
| Wedge | 179 (68.3) |
| Segmentectomy | 78 (29.8) |
| Lobectomy | 5 (1.9) |
| Pleural adhesion | 28 (10.7) |
| Partial pleural adhesion | 21 (8.0) |
| Total pleural adhesion | 7 (2.7) |
| Operation time, min | 46.8 ± 5.2 |
| Nodule identified in first excision | 262 (100) |
| Histopathologic results | |
| Chronic inflammation | 14 (4.9) |
| Fibrosis | 8 (2.8) |
| Cryptococcus infection | 10 (3.5) |
| Granuloma | 15 (5.2) |
| Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia | 41 (14.2) |
| Adenocarcinoma in situ | 67 (23.3) |
| Minimally invasive adenocarcinoma | 108 (37.4) |
| Invasive adenocarcinoma | 19 (6.6) |
| Metastatic tumor | 6 (2.1) |
Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation or number of patients with the percentage in parentheses
min = minute