Table I.
Clinical characteristics of 45 patients with thin-walled cystic lung cancer.
| Target | Number (%) |
|---|---|
| Sex | |
| Male | 32 (71.1) |
| Female | 13 (28.9) |
| Age, years | |
| 30–40 | 2 (4.4) |
| 41–50 | 15 (33.3) |
| 51–60 | 8 (17.8) |
| >60 | 20 (44.5) |
| Smoking | |
| No | 31 (72.5) |
| Yes | 14 (27.5) |
| Symptoms | |
| No symptoms | 23 (45.7) |
| Cough | 14 (23.9) |
| Sputum | 12 (21.7) |
| Blood in sputum | 5 (8.7) |
| HRCT presentation of thin-walled cysts | |
| Asymmetric thickening of the wall | 37 (96.8) |
| Ground-glass shadow | 4 (9.6) |
| Short spicules | 13 (35.5) |
| Irregular margins | 20 (51.6) |
| Separation in cysts | 21 (54.8) |
| Lobulation | 7 (19.3) |
| Pleural indentation | 9 (22.6) |
| Blood vessel convergency | 6 (16.1) |
| Maximum cyst diameter, cm | |
| <1 | 0 (0.0) |
| 1–2 | 4 (8.9) |
| 2.1–4 | 33 (73.3) |
| >4 | 8 (17.8) |
| Metastasis | |
| No | 42 (93.3) |
| Yes | 3 (6.7) |
| Pathology | |
| Adenocarcinoma | 43 (93.3) |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | 2 (6.7) |
| Prognosis | |
| Relapse | 1 (2.2) |
| Succumbed to mortality from the disease | 2 (4.5) |
| Succumbed to mortality from another disease | 1 (2.2) |
| Survival | 41 (91.1) |
HRCT, high-resolution computed tomography.