Approach to the Ground-Glass Nodule

作者：Detterbeck Frank C^*; Homer Robert J

来源：Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2011, 32(4): 799-+.

DOI：10.1016/j.ccm.2011.08.002

• Ground-glass opacity
• Chest CT
• Lung cancer
• Lung nodule
• CT scan

The detection of ground-glass opacity (GGO) is increasingly common. Sufficient data have been accumulated to formulate recommendations for observation, intervention, and treatment modalities. However, an understanding of many nuances and uncertainties in the available data is needed to avoid making management errors. This article discusses the range of possible entities, risk factors and characteristics that help make a presumptive clinical diagnosis, how often and for how long these should be followed when and how a biopsy should be done, how these lesions should be treated, and how multifocal GGOs should be approached.

• 出版日期2011-12