The relationship between image of lung cancer and resection rate

Objective Discuss the indication of the exploratory thoracotomy for cancer patients. Methods Compare and analyze the conditions observed in operations with iconography. Results Among the 21 patients of whom the contact diameter between the tumor and mediastinum on the CT photograph is larger than 3 centimeters, there are 19 of them whose hilums display frozen state in operations; 23 out of the 24 patients with disappeared mediastinal fat pad are unable to be executed dissection of hilum vessel and bronchus...