Table 4 Nodule outcomes of patients with solitary and multiple pulmonary nodules.

Type of nodule	Total no of patients	No (%) of patients with malignant nodules	Type of malignant nodules
			No (%) of patients with metastatic nodules	No (%) of patients with lung cancers	No (%) of patients with second primary cancers	No (%) of patients where primary site undetermined
Solitary	59	31 (53%)	9 (29%)	19 (61%)	1 (3%)	2 (7%)
Multiple*	92	33 (36%)	19 (57%)	13 (39%)	1 (3%)	1 (3%)
Total	151	64 (42%)	28 (43%)	32 (49%)	2 (3%)	3 (5%)

*One patient with chondrosarcoma had concurrent metastatic disease and primary lung cancer and was counted for both categories.