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Table 3 Pathologic diagnoses

From: Surgical resection of nodular ground-glass opacities without percutaneous needle aspiration or biopsy

Malignant (n =314)

No.

%

Adenocarcinoma in situ

38

12.1

Minimally invasive adenocarcinoma

63

20.1

Invasive adenocarcinoma

  

  Lepidic predominant

33

10.5

  Acinar predominant

115

36.6

  Papillary predominant

52

16.6

  Micropapillary predominant

1

0.32

  Solid predominant

2

0.64

Variants

  

  Mucinous adenocarcinoma

9

2.9

  Enteric

1

0.32

Benign (n =16)

No.

%

Focal interstitial fibrosis

5

31.3

Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia

4

25.0

Subpleural fibrosis

3

18.8

Respiratory bronchiolitis with fibrosis and lymphocytic infiltration

1

6.3

Heavy lymphoplasma cell infiltration

1

6.3

Pulmonary lymphomatoid granulomatosis

1

6.3

Anthracofibrotic nodule with reactive pneumocytes

1

6.3