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Table 2 Pathological characteristics of patients

From: Reappraising the clinical usability of consolidation-to-tumor ratio on CT in clinical stage IA lung cancer

Variable

Consolidation-to-tumor ratio

 

Overall (n = 944)

0% (n = 89)

0–25% (n = 81)

25–50% (n = 83)

50–75% (n = 116)

75–100% (n = 201)

100% (n = 374)

 

Pathologic size

Total Size (mm, mean ± SD)

20.8 ± 7.8

17.1 ± 5.9

17.6 ± 6.8

19.2 ± 7.3

22.5 ± 9.1

22.2 ± 8.1

21.5 ± 7.3

0.036

Invasive size (mm, mean ± SD)

18.9 ± 8.3

12.2 ± 7.0

13.2 ± 6.6

14.8 ± 6.6

19.3 ± 9.0

21.0 ± 7.9

21.4 ± 7.4

0.014

Histologic type

ADC

852 (90.3%)

89 (100.0%)

81 (100.0%)

83 (100.0%)

114 (98.3%)

194 (96.5%)

291 (77.8%)

0.000

SqCC

66 (7.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

5 (2.5%)

61 (16.3%)

 

Others

26 (2.8%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (1.7%)

2 (1.0%)

22 (5.9%)

 

Predominant histologic pattern of ADC (n = 787)

       

0.000

Lepidic

60 (6.4%)

26 (31.0%)

13 (16.9%)

8 (10.5%)

5 (4.7%)

6 (3.3%)

2 (0.8%)

 

Acinar

548 (58.1%)

50 (59.5%)

58 (75.3%)

57 (75.0%)

93 (87.7%)

142 (78.0%)

148 (56.5%)

 

Papillary

97 (10.3%)

8 (9.5%)

6 (7.8%)

10 (13.2%)

6 (5.7%)

22 (12.1%)

45 (17.2%)

 

Solid

50 (5.3%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (1.3%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (1.1%)

47 (17.9%)

 

Micro-papillary

16 (1.7%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (1.9%)

8 (4.4%)

6 (2.3%)

 

Complex (cribriform etc.)

16 (1.7%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (1.1%)

14 (5.3%)

 

Grade of predominant histologic pattern of ADC* (n = 787)

       

0.000

Low (Lepidic)

60 (7.6%)

26 (31.0%)

13 (16.9%))

8 (10.5%)

5 (4.7%)

6 (3.3%)

2 (0.8%)

 

Intermediate (Acinar, Papillary)

645 (82.0%)

58 (69.0%)

64 (83.1%)

67 (88.2%)

99 (93.4%)

164 (90.1%)

193 (73.7%)

 

High (Solid, Micro-papillary, Complex)

82 (10.4%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1 (1.3%)

2 (1.9%)

12 (6.6%)

67 (25.6%)

 

Pathologic N stage

       

0.000

N0

837 (88.7%)

84 (94.4%)

77 (95.1%)

81 (97.6%)

113 (97.4%)

181 (90.1%)

301 (80.5%)

 

N1

44 (4.7%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (0.9%)

11 (5.5%)

32 (8.6%)

 

N2

41 (4.3%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (0.9%)

7 (3.5%)

33 (8.8%)

 

Unknown

22 (2.3%)

5 (5.6%)

4 (4.9%)

2 (2.4%)

1 (0.9%)

2 (1.0%)

8 (2.1%)

 

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL)

Unknown

137

11 (12.4%)

6 (7.4%)

12 (14.5%)

14 (12.1%)

30 (14.9%)

64 (17.1%)

 

Low

189

8 (9.0%)

9 (11.1%)

8 (9.6%)

16 (13.8%)

39 (19.4%)

109 (29.1%)

 

Moderate

218

19 (21.3%)

15 (18.5%)

25 (30.1%)

31 (26.7%)

41 (20.4%)

87 (23.3%)

 

High

400

51 (57.3%)

51 (63.0%)

38 (45.8%)

55 (47.4%)

91 (45.3%)

114 (30.5%)