Table 1.
Personal and clinical characteristics, chest radiography findings, coagulation profile and histopathological types of the studied patients
| Items | |
|---|---|
| Age/year (mean ± SD) | 56.7 ± 8.8 |
| Sex | |
| • Male | 44 (83.0%) |
| • Female | 9 (17.0%) |
| Smoking status | |
| • Smoker | 39 (73.6%) |
| • Non-smoker | 14 (26.4%) |
| Smoking pack/year (mean ± SD) | 22.7 ± 20.0 |
| History of chronic lung diseases | |
| • No | 19 (35.8%) |
| • COPD | 28 (52.8%) |
| • DPLD | 6 (11.3%) |
| Presenting symptomsa | |
| • Cough | 43 (81.1%) |
| • Chest pain | 42 (79.2%) |
| • Dyspnoea | 27 (50.9%) |
| • Haemoptysis | 24 (45.3%) |
| • Fever | 21 (39.6%) |
| • Hoarseness of voice | 9 (15.0%) |
| Chest radiography findingsa | |
| • Hilar LN enlargement | 14 (30.4%) |
| • Mass | 35 (76.1%) |
| • Mass necrosis | 4 (11.4%) |
| • Consolidations | 7 (15.2%) |
| • Collapse | 2 (4.3%) |
| • Pleural effusion | 14 (30.4%) |
| • Elevated dome of the diaphragm | 1 (2.2%) |
| Platelets count | 368.0 ± 9.0 |
| INR | 0.84 ± 0.02 |
| Histopathological types | |
| • Squamous cell carcinoma | 16 (30.2%) |
| • Adenocarcinoma | 16 (30.2%) |
| • Large cell carcinoma | 15 (28.3%) |
| • SCLC | 6 (11.3 %) |
SD: standard deviation, COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, DPLD: diffuse parenchymal lung diseases.
a
Percentages add to more than 100% due to multiple presentation of symptoms or CXR findings. INR: international normalization ratio; LN: lymph node; SCLC: small cell lung cancer.