Preoperative assessment of parietal pleural invasion/adhesion of subpleural lung cancer: advantage of software-assisted analysis of 4-dimensional dynamic-ventilation computed tomography

To evaluate the accuracy of four-dimensional (4D) dynamic-ventilation computed tomography (CT) scanning coupled with our novel image analysis software to diagnose parietal pleural invasion/adhesion of peripheral (subpleural) lung cancer. Eighteen patients with subpleural lung cancer underwent both 4D dynamic-ventilation CT during free breathing and conventional (static) chest CT during preoperative assessment. The absence of parietal pleural...