Table 9.

Comparison among the perfusion parameters and MVD between VEGF positive and negative expression of three groups of peripheral pulmonary nodules

	Parameter		BV	BF	MTT	PS	PH	PHpm/PHa	MVD
VEGF positive expression	Peripheral lung cancer (n = 29) and benign nodule (n = 3)	P	0.031	0.007	0.658	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.010
VEGF negative expression	Peripheral lung cancer (n = 10) and inflammatory nod (n = 13)	P	0.616	0.968	0.308	0.003	0.000	0.001	0.043
	Peripheral lung cancer (n = 10) and benign nodule (n = 9)	P	0.033	0.114	0.152	0.002	0.000	0.000	0.007
	Inflammatory nodule (n = 13) and benign nodule (n = 9)	P	0.008	0.003	0.585	0.818	0.000	0.000	0.000